Hydraulic-Kinetics Model Development for Sewer Network Management and Chemical Dosing Optimization

The proposed project is to develop a comprehensive tool for mathematical modeling of the hydraulics and biochemical conversions in the sewer network. This tool will be used for the optimization of the control strategy of the chemicals dosing in sewer networks to efficiently and economically mitigate the harmful emissions, such as hydrogen sulfide and greenhouse gases, resulting from the biochemical reactions in the sewer network. The proposed tool will have the capability to determine the hot spots of the harmful emissions in a large-scale sewer network, e.g. a sewer network of a city. In addition, optimization of the chemical dosing strategy and control will be developed using this tool by determining the locations, times, and amount of dosing chemicals to achieve the highest effectiveness and completely eliminate the gases emission. In order to develop a robust optimization tool that can be used for different conditions, rigorous validation should be conducted using extensive measurement data from large-scale real sewers and pilot-scale experiments. Therefore, in a collaboration with the other researchers in USP Technologies, a huge number of measurements will be conducted and fed to the mathematical model.

Faculty Supervisor:

Yuri Lawryshyn

Student:

Partner:

USP Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Toronto

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