Biochemical reactions that occur in sewer pipes produce a considerable amount of hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S corrosive and poisonous), methane gas (CH4 explosive and a major climate change contributor), carbon dioxide (CO2 a major climate change contributor), and other volatile substances (collectively known as in-sewer gases). These toxic gases lead to contamination of natural environment, sewer...

The sewer layout in flat areas significantly influences the construction and operational costs as well as reliability of the network performance. To find an optimum design of sewer networks for flat areas, this study presents a multi-objective optimization problem with the objective functions of 1- the cost and 2- the reliability. The reliability criterion is defined as the effect of a clogging...

The Hamburg Water Group owns and operates a sewer network with a total length of more than 5,700 km. There has been increasing attention paid to the possible impacts of predicted changes in precipitation patterns on the sewer network infrastructure. The primary objective of the work presented in this paper is an estimation of the hydraulic impacts of climate change on the Hamburg drainage syste...

To monitor water quality continuously over the entire sewer network is important for efficient management of the system. However, it is practically impossible to implement continuous water quality monitoring of all junctions of a sewer system due to budget constraints. Therefore, water quality monitoring locations must be selected as those points which are the most representative of the dataset...

In a distribbted environment, a client program bound to a sewer fails when the Sewer changes (possibly due to the sewer being relocated, replicated or rewnfigured). In this paper, we describe the design of an object-replacement scheme in a client-sewer environment. Our design addresses the problem of replacing a sewer and transparently updating the client handle so that no sewice interruption i...

We discuss how Delft-FEWS is applied to incorporate real-time sensor data and dynamic modeling to allow Real Time Control (RTC) of three sewer systems in the area of the Hoeksche Waard, the Netherlands. The purpose of this project was to reduce sewerage spilling to the surface water by optimizing the available storage in the sewer systems. In this paper we will present how Delft-FEWS makes use ...

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...

Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of concrete in sanitary sewer pipe and manholes is the result dilute sulfuric acid (H2SO4) dissolving cement matrix. The produced by a complex series chemical biochemical reactions. objectives this paper are: (1) to review basic science MIC process starting with various biological processes leading production acid; (2) discuss historical attempts for...