This paper introduces the application of fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in combined sewer systems. The DTS-technique uses a fibre-optic cable that is inserted into a combined sewer system in combination with a laser instrument that performs measurements and logs the data. The DTS-technique allows monitoring in-sewer temperatures with dense spatial and temporal resolutions. The installation of a fibre-optic cable in a combined sewer system has proven feasible. The use of a single instrument in an easy accessible and safe location that can simultaneously monitor up to several hundreds of monitoring locations makes the DTS set-up easy in use and nearly free of maintenance. Temperature data from a one-week monitoring campaign in an 1,850 m combined sewer system shows the level of detail with which in-sewer processes that affect wastewater temperatures can be studied. Individual discharges from house-connections can be tracked in time and space. With a dedicated cable configuration the confluence of wastewater flows can be observed with a potential to derive the relative contributions of contributary flows to a total flow. Also, the inflow and in-sewer propagation of stormwater can be monitored.
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May 01 2009
Fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing in combined sewer systems
R. P. S. Schilperoort;
1Department of Watermanagement, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
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F. H. L. R. Clemens
F. H. L. R. Clemens
1Department of Watermanagement, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
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Water Sci Technol (2009) 60 (5): 1127–1134.
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R. P. S. Schilperoort, F. H. L. R. Clemens; Fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing in combined sewer systems. Water Sci Technol 1 May 2009; 60 (5): 1127–1134. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.467
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