CITY DRAIN © - An open source approach for simulation of integrated urban drainage systems
Environmental Modelling & Software
Artificial neural networks for rapid WWTP performance evaluation: Methodology and case study
Environmental Modelling & Software
Multiple objective optimal control of integrated urban wastewater systems
Environmental Modelling & Software
Model-based optimisation of Wastewater Treatment Plants design
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Assessment of data availability influence on integrated urban drainage modelling uncertainty
Environmental Modelling & Software
Multi-criteria analysis of wastewater treatment plant design and control scenarios under uncertainty
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Review: A critical review of integrated urban water modelling - Urban drainage and beyond
Environmental Modelling & Software
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This paper presents a set of tools developed to support an innovative methodology to design and upgrade wastewater treatment systems in a probabilistic way. For the first step, data reconstruction, two different tools were developed, one for situations where data are available and another one where no data are available. The second step, modelling and simulation, implied the development of a new simulation platform and of distributed computation software to deal with the simulation load generated by the third step, uncertainty analysis, with Monte Carlo simulations of the system over one year, important dynamics and stiff behaviour. For the fourth step, evaluation of alternatives, the evaluator tool processes the results of the simulations and plots the relevant information regarding the robustness of the process against input and parameters uncertainties, as well as concentration-duration curves for the risk of non-compliance with effluent and receiving water quality limits. This paper illustrates the merits of these tools to make the innovative methodology of practical interest. The design practice should move from conventional procedures suited for the relatively fixed context of emission limits, to more advanced, transparent and cost-effective procedures appropriate to cope with the flexibility and complexity introduced by integrated water management approaches.