Booster disinfection in water distribution networks

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Sert, Çağlayan

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Disinfection of the municipal water systems is mostly achieved by means of chlorine addition at water treatment plants known as sources. Thus, there should be an adequate chlorine concentration at the source for an effective disinfection throughout the system by considering upper and lower limits of disinfectant. However, since the disinfectants are reactive and decays through the system, chlorine added at the source may not be enough to maintain desired disinfectant residuals which may lead to water quality problems in the water distribution system. Moreover, the disinfectants such as chlorine has also an effect to be carcinogen due to formation of disinfectant by-products. Thus, the system should balance the amount of disinfectant supplied while minimizing the health risk. In such a case, it is recommended that one or more booster disinfection stations can be located throughout the system. Such a method can provide more uniform distribution of the chlorine concentration while reducing the amount of the disinfectant used. In this thesis, optimum scheduling, and injection rates of the booster disinfection stations have been searched. The objective is to minimize the injected mass dosage rate subjected to the provision of adequate and more uniform residual concentration in the network. Determination of variable network hydraulics and chlorine concentrations is held out by EPANET network simulation sofware. A C++ code was developed to interface with EPANET by means of the EPANET Programmer's Toolkit for linear optimization of the disinfectant mass dosage rate applied to the network.

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Civil engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610755/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18734

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Ç. Sert, “Booster disinfection in water distribution networks,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.