Educational Tool for Design of Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse Systems

There is an astonishing lack of awareness among many technical service providers and environment practitioners with regard to the range of wastewater treatment methods and equipment available. The paper presents an effective training and reference tools focusing on wastewater treatment and water reuse systems. The tool is composed of four parts: reference system, case base manager, treatment adviser, and process visualizer. Reference system manages all background knowledge existing in the tool. Case study manager performs the retrieval of the most similar cases to the current problem from the case base containing the past designs of wastewater treatment systems. Treatment adviser is able to generate a simple sequence of treatment methods for wastewater. Process visualizer has the ability to construct the treatment sequences and to represent them graphically.