The main goal of the Water Framework Directive is to achieve good chemical and ecological status of water bodies by 2015. The implementation of integrated river basin management, including sewer systems, wastewater treatment plants and receiving water bodies, is essential to accomplishing this objective. Integrated management is complex and therefore the implementation of control systems and the development of decision support systems are needed to facilitate the work of urban wastewater system (UWS) managers. Within this context, the objective of this paper is to apply integrated modelling of an UWS to simulate and analyse the behaviour of the ‘Congost’ UWS in Spain, and to optimize its performance against different types of perturbations. This analysis results in optimal operating set-points for each perturbation, improves river water quality, minimizes combined sewer overflows and optimizes flow lamination from storm water tanks. This is achieved by running Monte Carlo simulations and applying global sensitivity analysis. The set-points will become part of the knowledge base composed of a set of IF-THEN rules of the environmental decision support system being developed for this case study.
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March 01 2012
Model-based knowledge acquisition in environmental decision support system for wastewater integrated management
Pau Prat;
1LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona, 17071, Spain
2ICRA, Catalan Institute for Water Research, Carrer Emili Grahit, 101, Girona, 17003, Spain
E-mail: paut@lequia.udg.cat
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Lorenzo Benedetti;
Lorenzo Benedetti
3BIOMATH, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent, 9000, Belgium and Waterways srl, Via del Ferrone 88, 50023 Impruneta FI, Italy
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Lluís Corominas;
Lluís Corominas
2ICRA, Catalan Institute for Water Research, Carrer Emili Grahit, 101, Girona, 17003, Spain
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Joaquim Comas;
Joaquim Comas
1LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona, 17071, Spain
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Manel Poch
Manel Poch
1LEQUIA, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona, 17071, Spain
2ICRA, Catalan Institute for Water Research, Carrer Emili Grahit, 101, Girona, 17003, Spain
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Water Sci Technol (2012) 65 (6): 1123–1129.
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Received:
February 24 2011
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June 30 2011
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Pau Prat, Lorenzo Benedetti, Lluís Corominas, Joaquim Comas, Manel Poch; Model-based knowledge acquisition in environmental decision support system for wastewater integrated management. Water Sci Technol 1 March 2012; 65 (6): 1123–1129. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.759
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