Emerging Pollutants in Developing Countries: Optimising Sustainable Treatment Solutions

12 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Zara Visanji, Seyed M.K. Sadr, Matthew Johns, Dragan Savic and Fayyaz A. Memon

Abstract

Over the past decade the research surrounding the occurrence, source, fate and removal of emerging pollutants has been increasing. The aim of this study was to create an add-on program which analyses the removal of emerging pollutants, to an existing decision support tool (WiSDOM). The tool was also used to evaluate the performance of each optimal solution in terms of removal of conventional pollutants using Multi Objective Genetic Algorithms and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis. Information was collated regarding minimum and maximum concentrations of emerging pollutants for surface water, groundwater, untreated wastewater, drinking water and treated wastewater. This information was used to populate an Excel Spreadsheet Program (ESP) which analysed the removal efficiencies of 13 different emerging pollutants for 42 wastewater treatment unit processes. The ESP is incorporated into the WiSDOM tool to allow the tool to calculate the removal of emerging pollutants. Three main scenarios were created to test the application of the tool and ESP. Scenario 1 focussed on the removal of emerging pollutants from from areas effected by tourism at different scales. Scenario 2 looked at the treatment suited for the removal of emerging pollutants from different socio- economic regions. Lastly, Scenario 3 looked at removing emerging pollutants from hospital and industrial wastewater. The scenarios were focused on wastewater treatment in India and investigated the removal of 13 emerging pollutants commonly found in India.

Keyphrases: decision support tool, emerging pollutants, india, water quality, wisdom

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 2204-2215.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/pXB1
	https://doi.org/10.29007/txmw

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Emerging_Pollutants_Developing_Countries,
  author    = {Zara Visanji and Seyed M.K. Sadr and Matthew Johns and Dragan Savic and Fayyaz A. Memon},
  title     = {Emerging Pollutants in Developing Countries: Optimising Sustainable Treatment Solutions},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/pXB1},
  doi       = {10.29007/txmw},
  pages     = {2204-2215},
  year      = {2018}}

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