Conceptual design of wastewater treatment plants using a design support system

✍ Scribed by Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda; Manel Poch; René Bañares-Alcántara

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 832 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-2575
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4660(200001)75:1<73::aid-jctb177>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

A case study showed the advantages of using a design support system during the design and retro®t of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The Manresa WWTP was chosen to demonstrate these advantages. While the records of the decision-making process used during the Manresa WWTP design were not available to the authors, its original design objectives and the resulting structure and values for its more important variables were. A simpli®ed but plausible design history focusing on the design decisions and not on the detailed modelling of the WWTP was generated with this information. Using such a design history it is possible (1) to evaluate automatically the compliance of alternative design proposals with respect to the design objectives; (2) to study the in¯uence of the weight of the arguments in the selection of the most adequate proposal; (3) to document the decision-making process; and (4) to assist the designer in the search of speci®c items within the historical records during the review of the current design or during the retro®t of the plant.