A Hybrid Surrogate Modelling Strategy for Simplification of Detailed Urban Drainage Simulators

Urban drainage modelling typically requires development of highly detailed simulators due to the nature of various underlying surface and drainage processes, which makes them computationally too expensive. Application of such simulators is still challenging in activities such as real-time control (RTC), uncertainty quantification analysis or...

Applicability of CFD Modelling in Determining Accurate Weir Discharge: Water Level Relationships

Being able to accurately determine weir discharges is of key importance in urban water management. The most common method is performing a level measurement and calculating the discharge using the standard weir equation. Since this equation is only valid in certain conditions, this can lead to large deviations from the actual discharge. In this...

On the correlation between Turbidity, Conductivity and COD

Introduction COD is one of the most important parameters for wastewater quality. Measuring COD is an expensive and time consuming process. There is a need for an inexpensive, accurate, reliable and continuous technique to monitor COD. Turbidity can be used as a proxy for COD, but is not accurate enough for some applications. Some research...

CSO pollution analysis based on conductivity and turbidity measurements and implications for application of RTC

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...

Treatment Techniques for Combined Sewer Overflows

During storm events, the flow in a combined sewer system can exceed the capacity and, as a result, a combined sewer overflow (CSO) will occur. During a CSO raw wastewater is discharged to surface water. This wastewater is a mixture of raw sanitary wastewater, raw industrial wastewater and rainwater. The receiving water will get polluted by...

Computational modelling of emission from combined sewer overflows

The Design of Optimally Functioning Storm Water Settling Tanks