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van der Werf, Job (author)REAL-time control (RTC) is a technique used to dynamically control urban drainage systems to utilise the existing infrastructuremore optimally. It can be used to achieve a number of objectives aiming to improve the functioning of the urban drainage system, typically through the reduction of pollution. When heavy rainfall occurs, combined sewer...doctoral thesis 2023
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van der Werf, Job (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author)Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Urban Drainage Systems (UDS) has been established as a cost-effective method to reduce pollution. However, the operation of large UDS (containing over 20 actuators) can only be optimized by oversimplifying the UDS dynamics, potentially leading to a decrease in performance and reduction in users' trust, thus...journal article 2023
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Zehnder, Calvin (author), Béen, Frederic (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Torres, Arlex Sanchez (author), Mark, Ole (author), Zlatanovic, L. (author), Abebe, Y.A. (author)Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been proven to be a useful tool in monitoring public health-related issues such as drug use, and disease. By sampling wastewater and applying WBE methods, wastewater-detectable pathogens such as viruses can be cheaply and effectively monitored, tracking people who might be missed or under-represented in...journal article 2023
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van der Werf, Job (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author)Model Predictive Control (MPC) of combined sewer systems can reduce environmental degradation caused by uncontrolled overflows. However, practical uncertainties are often neglected when assessing the potential of MPC strategies. This paper aims to understand the risks associated with using a non-perfect internal MPC-model, real precipitation...journal article 2023
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van der Werf, Job (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author)Urban Drainage Systems can cause ecological and public health issues by releasing untreated contaminated water into the environment. Real-time control (RTC), augmented with rainfall nowcast, can effectively reduce these pollution loads. This research aims to identify key dynamics in the nowcast accuracies and relate those to the performance...journal article 2023
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Rosin, T. R. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Keedwell, E. (author), Romano, M. (author)Blockages are a major issue for wastewater utilities around the world, causing loss of service, environmental pollution, and significant cleanup costs. Increasing telemetry in combined sewer overflows (CSOs) provides the opportunity for near real-time data-driven modelling of wastewater networks. This paper presents a novel methodology,...journal article 2022
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Daulat, Shamsuddin (author), Rokstad, Marius Møller (author), Klein-Paste, Alex (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz (author)The prosperity of urban life is dependent on its infrastructure. Urban underground infrastructure components (assets) are aging and need regular monitoring, maintenance and rehabilitation. These assets are often placed under pavements and in close vicinity to each other. Managing them in a coordinated way is rational considering costs and...journal article 2022
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Duque, Natalia (author), Bach, Peter M. (author), Scholten, L. (author), Fappiano, F. (author), Maurer, Max (author)Future climatic, demographic, technological, urban and socio-economic challenges call for more flexible and sustainable wastewater infrastructure systems. Exploratory modelling can help to investigate the consequences of these developments on the infrastructure. In order to explore large numbers of adaptation strategies, we need to re-balance...journal article 2022
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Draude, Sabrina (author), Keedwell, Ed (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Hiscock, Rebecca (author)Effective functioning of sewer systems is critical for the everyday life of people in the urban environment. This is achieved, among other things, by the means of regular, planned maintenance of these systems. A large water utility would normally have several maintenance teams (or crews) at their disposal who can perform related jobs at...journal article 2022
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Sharma, Keshab (author), Gutierrez, Oriol (author), Yuan, Zhiguo (author), Daelman, Matthijs R.J. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Volcke, Eveline I.P. (author)This chapter provides a review of the models available for estimating the production and emission of methane from wastewater collection and treatment systems. The details of a number of mechanistic models as well as the simplified empirical models have been summarized. Their limitations have been identified and general methods for calibration...book chapter 2022
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Nguyen, T.L. (author), Blight, A. (author), Pickering, A. (author), Jackson-Mills, G. (author), Barber, A. R. (author), Boyle, J.H. (author), Richardson, R. (author), Dogar, M. (author), Cohen, N. (author)Despite recent advances in robotic technology, sewer pipe inspection is still limited to conventional approaches that use cable-tethered robots. Such commercially available tethered robots lack autonomy, and their operation must be manually controlled via their tethered cables. Consequently, they can only travel to a certain distance in pipe,...journal article 2022
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Stegeman, B. (author), Hoffmann, Rob (author), Hopman, Victor (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens-Meyer, Franҫois (author)The main application of the mobile geo-electrical measurement is the detection of the presence and determining the location of leakage in sewer systems. To do so, this method relies on the increase in the measured electrical current between an electrode inside and an electrode outside the sewer system. To use this technique for the...journal article 2022
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Makris, K. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sewer pipes have operated for decades in a hostile environment, raising concern among sewer managers over the longevity of their drainage systems. Inspection data (CCTV and Panoramo®) reveals that severe defects have already surfaced, yet it is unknown if the material properties of PVC sewers have been affected. In...journal article 2021
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Rosin, T. R. (author), Romano, M. (author), Keedwell, E. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) are a major source of pollution and urban flooding, spilling untreated wastewater directly into water bodies and the surrounding environment. If overflows can be predicted sufficiently in advance, then techniques are available for mitigation. This paper presents a novel bi-model committee evolutionary...journal article 2021
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Montes, Carlos (author), Ortiz, Hachly (author), Vanegas, Sergio (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Berardi, Luigi (author), Saldarriaga, Juan (author)This paper presents a novel model for predicting the sediment transport rate during flushing operation in sewers. The model was developed using the Evolutionary Polynomial Regression Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (EPR-MOGA) methodology applied to new experimental data collected. Using the new model, a series of design charts were...journal article 2021
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Jia, Yueyi (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Zhang, Qingzhou (author), Duan, Huan Feng (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Hydraulic modeling of a foul sewer system (FSS) enables a better understanding of the behavior of the system and its effective management. However, there is generally a lack of sufficient field measurement data for FSS model development due to the low number of in-situ sensors for data collection. To this end, this study proposes a new method...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Qingzhou (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Jia, Yueyi (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Real-time hydraulic modelling can be used to address a wide range of issues in a foul sewer system and hence can help improve its daily operation and maintenance. However, the current bottleneck within real-time FSS modelling is the lack of spatio-temporal inflow data. To address the problem, this paper proposes a new method to develop real...journal article 2021
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Montes, Carlos (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Saldarriaga, Juan (author)Sediment transport in sewers has been extensively studied in the past. This paper aims to propose a new method for predicting the self-cleansing velocity required to avoid permanent deposition of material in sewer pipes. The new Random Forest (RF) based model was implemented using experimental data collected from the literature. The accuracy...journal article 2021
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Soechiarto, Emelia Dara (author), Wüthrich, D. (author), Chanson, Hubert (author)Partially-filled pipe flows are commonly observed in urban hydraulics, sewers and road crossings. The occurrence of a compression wave in the confined space may result from flash flooding, transient operation or accidental blockage, inducing explosive conditions. In this study, the propagation of a compression wave was studied in a relatively...journal article 2021
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Bailey, Olivia (author), Zlatanovic, L. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Blokker, Mirjam (author), Arnot, Tom (author), Hofman, Jan (author)Reducing water use could impact existing sewer systems but this is not currently well understood. This work describes a new flow and wastewater quality model developed to investigate this impact. SIMDEUM WW® was used to generate stochastic appliance-specific discharge profiles for wastewater flow and concentration, which were fed into InfoWorks®...journal article 2020