Connecting Pipes and Plants: Concurrent Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Hydraulic Performance of a Collection System and a Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Abstract
The City of Edmonton's Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant (GBWWTP) is at the downstream end of a collection system servicing approximately 634,000 people plus industrial and commercial areas.The plant has a relatively flat hydraulic profile, such that the effluent weir on the primary tanks is 0.23 m above the invert of the incoming conduit.The effluent weir on the secondary clarifiers is only 0.38 m below the primary tank weir.For years the hydraulic simulation of the collection system has proceeded on the assumption of a controlled head relationship at the headworks of the treatment plant.This has been a reasonable approach when evaluating the performance of the collection systems.However as work has progressed on the City's combined sewer overf1ow strategy and a preferred method of control is to convey more flow to the GBWWTP for treatment and expand treatment capacity, the hydraulic gradeline at the inlet, and the headworks of the plant become important elements.Without lowering the gradeline at the plant inlet, it is difficult to achieve the objective of treating a flow rate of 1600 MUd on a sustained basis.Typically only during the largest events could such a high flow to the plant be possible and only for a short period of time.Tnerefore it was necessary to determine means oflowering the hydraulic profile at the headworks of the plant, and at the same time evaluating the system f1ows reaching the plant.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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