Onsite greywater reuse (GWR) and installation of water-efficient toilets (WETs) reduce urban freshwater demand and thus enhance urban water use sustainability. Research on GWR and WETs has generally overlooked their potential effects on municipal sewer systems: GWR and WETs affect the flow regime in sewers, and consequently also influence gross solids transport. To asses these impacts, a gross solids transport model was developed. The model is based on approaches found in the literature. Hydrodynamic calculations of sewage flow were performed using the SIMBA6 simulator and then used for the gross solid movement models. Flow characteristics in the up- and downstream sections of the sewer network differ. Therefore different approaches were used to model solids movement in each of these two parts. Each model determines whether a solid moves as a result of a momentary sewage flow, and if it moves, calculation of its velocity is possible. The paper shows the adoption and implementation of two gross solids transport models using SIMBA6 and depicts the results of the effects of various GWR and WET scenarios on gross solids movement in sewers for a real case study in Israel.
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October 25 2013
Assessment of the effects of greywater reuse on gross solids movement in sewer systems
R. Penn;
1Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
E-mail: ronipenn@tx.technion.ac.il
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M. Schütze;
M. Schütze
2ifak- Institut für Automation und Kommunikation e.V. Magdeburg, Werner-Heisenberg-Str. 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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E. Friedler
E. Friedler
1Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Water Sci Technol (2014) 69 (1): 99–105.
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July 01 2013
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September 10 2013
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R. Penn, M. Schütze, E. Friedler; Assessment of the effects of greywater reuse on gross solids movement in sewer systems. Water Sci Technol 1 January 2014; 69 (1): 99–105. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2013.555
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