The Besòs River Basin authority is working towards the implementation of integrated river basin management, as required by the Water Framework Directive (WFD), to achieve a good ecological and chemical status of all water bodies by 2015. The studied system is constituted by two communities (La Garriga and Granollers), their corresponding draining catchments, sewer systems and two WWTPs, which discharge treated water at different locations of the same river. Within this context, the realisation of an integrated model of the river stretch and of the two WWTPs with their sewer systems and draining catchments was necessary. Such a model allows to efficiently simulate and analyse the behaviour of the integrated system and to optimize its performance holistically. In this article, a method is presented to generate rules to be implemented in a supervisory system for automatic management of the Integrated Urban Wastewater System (IUWS) in dry and storm weather. This is achieved by identifying, with the help of Monte Carlo simulations, the most performing operational parameters—according to environmental and economic criteria—for the two weather conditions.
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October 01 2009
A new rule generation method to develop a decision support system for integrated management at river basin scale
Lorenzo Benedetti;
1BIOMATH, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent 9000, Belgium E-mail: lorenzo.benedetti@ugent.be; ingmar.nopens@ugent.be
2KERMIT, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent 9000, Belgium E-mail: bernard.debaets@ugent.be
E-mail: lorenzo.benedetti@ugent.be
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Pau Prat;
Pau Prat
3LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona 17071, Spain E-mail: pau@lequia.udg.cat; manel@lequia.udg.cat; quim@lequia.udg.cat
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Ingmar Nopens;
Ingmar Nopens
1BIOMATH, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent 9000, Belgium E-mail: lorenzo.benedetti@ugent.be; ingmar.nopens@ugent.be
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Manel Poch;
Manel Poch
3LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona 17071, Spain E-mail: pau@lequia.udg.cat; manel@lequia.udg.cat; quim@lequia.udg.cat
4ICRA, Catalan Water Research Institute, PCiT, Girona 17071, Spain
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Clàudia Turon;
Clàudia Turon
5Consorci per a la Defensa de la Conca del Riu Besòs, Av. Sant Julià 241, Granollers 08403, Spain E-mail: cturon@besos.cat
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Bernard De Baets;
Bernard De Baets
2KERMIT, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent 9000, Belgium E-mail: bernard.debaets@ugent.be
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Joaquim Comas
Joaquim Comas
3LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona 17071, Spain E-mail: pau@lequia.udg.cat; manel@lequia.udg.cat; quim@lequia.udg.cat
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Water Sci Technol (2009) 60 (8): 2035–2040.
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Lorenzo Benedetti, Pau Prat, Ingmar Nopens, Manel Poch, Clàudia Turon, Bernard De Baets, Joaquim Comas; A new rule generation method to develop a decision support system for integrated management at river basin scale. Water Sci Technol 1 October 2009; 60 (8): 2035–2040. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.522
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