The sewer layout in flat areas significantly influences the construction and operational costs as well as reliability of the network performance. To find an optimum design of sewer networks for flat areas, this study presents a multi-objective optimization problem with the objective functions of 1- the cost and 2- the reliability. The reliability criterion is defined as the effect of a clogging...

The high pollution load in wastewater at the beginning of a rain event is commonly known to originate from the erosion of sewer sediments due to the increased flow rate under storm weather conditions. It is essential to characterize the biodegradability of organic matter during a storm event in order to quantify the effect it can have further downstream to the receiving water via discharges fro...

Optimal sewer design aims to minimize capital investment on infrastructure whilst ensuring a good system performance under specific design criteria. One of the state-of-the-art optimization techniques for this problem is the Genetic Algorithm (GA), which is commonly combined with a sewer hydraulic simulator during the optimization. However, this approach can be prohibitively time-consuming espe...

To monitor water quality continuously over the entire sewer network is important for efficient management of the system. However, it is practically impossible to implement continuous water quality monitoring of all junctions of a sewer system due to budget constraints. Therefore, water quality monitoring locations must be selected as those points which are the most representative of the dataset...

In a distribbted environment, a client program bound to a sewer fails when the Sewer changes (possibly due to the sewer being relocated, replicated or rewnfigured). In this paper, we describe the design of an object-replacement scheme in a client-sewer environment. Our design addresses the problem of replacing a sewer and transparently updating the client handle so that no sewice interruption i...

We discuss how Delft-FEWS is applied to incorporate real-time sensor data and dynamic modeling to allow Real Time Control (RTC) of three sewer systems in the area of the Hoeksche Waard, the Netherlands. The purpose of this project was to reduce sewerage spilling to the surface water by optimizing the available storage in the sewer systems. In this paper we will present how Delft-FEWS makes use ...

The combined sewer system of the City of Prague, similar to other relevant locations, is strongly affected by infiltrating waters. The knowledge of their volume is one of the important parameters with respect to sewer system operation, maintenance and reconstruction. The methodology is based on the variation of diurnal chemical oxygen demand (COD) load and continuous water quality monitoring us...

In general, the sewer inspection usually employs a great number of CCTV images to discover sewer failures by human interpretation. A computer-aided program remains to be developed due to human’s fatigue and subjectivity. To enhance the efficiency of sewer inspection, this paper attends to apply artificial intelligence to extract the failure features of the sewer systems that is demonstrated on ...