Field hospital wastewater treatment scenario

The treatment of hospital wastewater: an appraisal.

Hospitals discharge considerable amounts of chemicals and microbial agents in their wastewaters. Problem chemicals present in hospital wastewater belong to different groups, such as antibiotics, X-ray contrast agents, disinfectants and pharmaceuticals. Many of these chemical compounds resist normal wastewater treatment. They end up in surface waters where they can influence the aquatic ecosyste...

Full scale advanced wastewater treatment at Herlev Hospital

An Australian Hospital Scenario

In the early 2000s, Information Systems researchers in Australia had begun to emphasise socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption of technologies. The ‘essentialist’ approaches to adoption (for example, Innovation Diffusion or TAM), suggest an essence is largely responsible for rate of adoption (Tatnall, 2011) or a new technology introduced may spark innovation. The socio-technical fact...

Integration of Wastewater Treatment Plant Investment and Operating Costs for Scenario Analysis Using Simulation

Biotim and Biomath recently started an ambitious R&D program aiming at the development of a new modelling and simulation tool, MoSS-CC (Model-based Simulation System for Cost Calculation), that supports a holistic economic evaluation of a WWTP over its life cycle. The use of dynamic simulation and the integration of variable operating costs in the assessment of scenarios will maximise the optim...

Joint Environmental and Economical Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Plants Control Strategies: A Benchmark Scenario Analysis

In this paper, a joint environmental and economic analysis of different Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) control strategies is carried out. The assessment is based on the application of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a method to evaluate the environmental impact and the Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1 (BSM1). The BSM1 is taken as the benchmark scenario used to implement the control strate...