Diagnostic Operational Modeling Programs for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants. Field Evaluation and Process Review Project Report

摘要

The project described in this report was undertaken in order to provide EPA Region X with easily applied user oriented computer programs based on ES Environmental Services, Inc. (ES2) methodologies which would rapidly and accurately predict treatment plant performance capabilities and process parameters under a wide variety of operating conditions. The project involved diagnostic computer modeling and on site field evaluation of 15 municipal treatment plants in Region X to verify the accuracy of the programs. In addition, ten treatment plants currently under design in Region X were modeled to determine their ability to meet anticipated discharge requirements. The results of the field validation effort have shown that the predictive methodologies developed by ES2 are very accurate under normal operating conditions in all types of treatment plants surveyed.