Owing to overflows from combined sewer pipe systems, water quality of receiving waters, including urban rivers, has become worse year by year. Appropriate countermeasures that can mitigate the overflows, therefore, must be developed promptly. The authors have investigated a distributed simulation model of water quality and stormwater runoff in urban sewer pipe systems. First, a surface routing ...

This paper presents a new and alternative method (in the context of urban drainage) for probabilistic hydrodynamical analysis of drainage systems in general and especially prediction of combined sewer overflow. Using a probabilistic shell it is possible to implement both input and parameter uncertainties on an application of the commercial urban drainage model MOUSE combined with the probabilis...

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Visual inspection by a human operator has been mostly used up till now to detect cracks in sewer pipes. In this paper, we address the problem of automated detection of such cracks. We propose a model which detects crack fractures that may occur in weak areas of a network of pipes. The model also predicts the level of dangerousness of the detected cracks among five crack levels. We evaluate our ...

Hydrogen sulfide, which is produced by sewer biofilms as a result of sulfate reduction under anaerobic conditions, has since long been identified as a major cause of corrosion and odour problems in a sewer system. Dosing of various types of chemicals to wastewater is widely used by the water industry as a control measure for these problems. Oxygen/air, nitrate salts, iron salts and magnesium hy...

This paper describes the use of wavelet entropy as a feature extractor for robust classification of cracks in sewer pipe structures. Video image data was acquired using an infrared camera in an experimental sewer pipe setup. Video frames were partitioned into 64 ∗ 64 pixel sections. 1,885 ’crack’ and 1,675 ’clean’ (non-crack) sections were manually classified. Each section was transformed to a ...

Assessing the compatibility of industrial discharges with biological process a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) may represent critical task. Indeed, either focusing only on chemical characterization or ecotoxicity tests designed to assess impact surface waters lead questionable misleading conclusions. The feasibility an connection sewer should better take into account features downst...

Providing piped water and sewer services is extremely capital intensive, yet most of this infrastructure buried, hidden from citizens ratepayers. Roman emperors built elaborate public fountains to increase the salience massive investments public, modern households give scarce thought network that serves them. At same time, tariffs are often too low recover operations maintenance costs, let alon...

Abstract Sewer systems play a key role in cities to ensure public assets and safety. Timely detection of defects can effectively alleviate system deterioration. Conventional manual inspection is labor-intensive, error-prone expensive. Object powerful deep learning technique that complement and/or replace conventional inspection, especially complex environments. This study compares two classic o...