Print Email Facebook Twitter CSO pollution analysis based on conductivity and turbidity measurements and implications for application of RTC Title CSO pollution analysis based on conductivity and turbidity measurements and implications for application of RTC Author Rombouts, P.M.M. Schilperoort, R. Langeveld, J.G. Clemens, F.H.L.R. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2013-12-31 Abstract The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the applicability of, and need for, surrogate sensors as robust sensors for water quality based RTC. For this purpose 1.5 years of level, conductivity (EC) and turbidity (TU) measurements at 9 combined sewer overflow (CSO) locations have been performed and analysed to determine the most polluted CSO locations. The analysis is based on surrogate event mean concentrations (sEMC, defined as EC multiplied by TU) and surrogate pollution loads (sPL, defined as the sEMC multiplied by the overflow volume). It is shown that EC and TU measurements can serve as surrogate measurements to determine the relative pollution of a CSO location. Analysis of the EC and TU values with respect to the distance between the CSO location and the WWTP gave no indication that this is of importance. Comparison of the sEMC and sPL for the CSO locations, shows that water quality measurements will have a great impact on the application of RTC, leading to quality based RTC. Subject Conductivity, Continuous monitoring, CSO, Quality based real time control, Turbidity To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4a9569c2-1299-491f-b266-10ca9b18c376 Publisher s.n. Source 8th International conference Novatech; Planning and technologies for sustainable urban water management, Lyon (France) 23-27 June, 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) The Authors Files PDF 294213.pdf 762.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4a9569c2-1299-491f-b266-10ca9b18c376/datastream/OBJ/view