Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) impose constraints on the weights, and the connectivity of a standard neural network, providing a framework well suited to the processing of spatially or temporally distributed data. Although CNNs have been applied to face and character recognition, they have still received relatively little attention. The present paper applies the CNN architecture to an art...

Municipalities are under increasing pressure to adopt proactive and optimized renewal strategies to reduce the risks, lifecycle costs, and resources needed to maintain acceptable performance and service levels of their infrastructure assets. A new integrated approach for optimal renewal planning of municipal infrastructure systems has been developed. This paper discusses the application of the ...

In general, the sewer inspection usually employs a great number of CCTV images to discover sewer failures by human interpretation. A computer-aided program remains to be developed due to human’s fatigue and subjectivity. To enhance the efficiency of sewer inspection, this paper attends to apply artificial intelligence to extract the failure features of the sewer systems that is demonstrated on ...

Sewer system design must be integrated with wastewater treatment plant design when moving towards a more sustainable urban wastewater management. This integration allows an optimization of the design of both systems to achieve a better and more cost-effective wastewater management. Hitherto integrated process design has not been an option because the tools to predict in-sewer wastewater transfo...

In this paper, we show how a convex optimization methodology can be used to determine a static solution, representing exit-valve settings in a multi-node reservoir system. A tunedvalve algorithm is used to produce an optimal flow solution and is based on the objective of minimizing overall combined sewer overflow (CSO) reservoir spillage to receiving waters under a combination of dry and wet (s...

The quantitative analysis of human urinary metabolites as biomarkers in wastewater streams has been used to estimate the rates of illicit drug use in the wider community. The primary underlying assumption in such studies is that a sample of wastewater is equivalent to a cumulative sample of urine. Drug metabolism in humans is predominantly enzymatically mediated, but these processes are not exc...

The new model ArcEGMO-URBAN aims at deterministic and spatiotemporal modelling of water, nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes from all urbanised areas of a river basin considering all potential sources. Pollution loads are calculated for discrete urban patches and balanced on the level of hydrological subbasins. Modelling results can be defined by the user of any level of spatial and/or temporal aggr...

Sewer systems that convey both sanitary sewage and storm water through a single pipe are referred to as combined sewer systems (CSSs). In dry weather, the CSS is able to convey all flows to the wastewater treatment facility. During periods of heavy rainfall, however, the capacity of the CSS may be exceeded and an untreated combination of sewage and storm water may discharged directly into a nea...