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SIMULATION AND SEWAGE
Author(s) -
Mellichamp Joseph M.,
Weaver Charles P.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1977.tb01105.x
Subject(s) - computer science , sewage treatment , limit (mathematics) , risk analysis (engineering) , operations research , industrial engineering , systems engineering , environmental science , environmental engineering , engineering , business , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Faced with increasing pressures on environmental issues, municipal and industrial planners must incorporate changing technology into planning processes. Conventional approaches to wastewater treatment plant design severely limit the ability of the designer to evaluate alternative design configurations. This paper suggests that computer simulation techniques can provide solutions to many of the problems which confront a designer. A simulation model of a hypothetical sewage treatment plant is described, and some of the design trade‐offs that can be evaluated with the model are presented.