scholarly journals Influent Forecasting for Wastewater Treatment Plants in North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Boyd ◽  
Dain Na ◽  
Zhong Li ◽  
Spencer Snowling ◽  
Qianqian Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
North America ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Influent Flow

Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) is a time series analysis model that can be dated back to 1955. It has been used in many different fields of study to analyze time series and forecast future data points; however, it has not been widely used to forecast daily wastewater influent flow. The objective of this study is to explore the possibility for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to utilize ARIMA for daily influent flow forecasting. To pursue the objective confidently, five stations across North America are used to validate ARIMA’s performance. These stations include Woodward, Niagara, North Davis, and two confidential plants. The results demonstrate that ARIMA models can produce satisfactory daily influent flow forecasts. Considering the results of this study, ARIMA models could provide the operating engineers at both municipal and rural WWTPs with sufficient information to run the stations efficiently and thus, support wastewater management and planning at various levels within a watershed.

Clustering of towns and villages for centralized wastewater treatment

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (11) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassaan A. Abd El Gawad ◽  
J. H. C. Butter
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Operation Costs ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
Centralized Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Number Of Treatment

In 1993 the Governorate of Fayoum completed its master plan for wastewater management. The master plan presents a staged implementation schedule for the development of wastewater facilities for the Governorate, covering needs up to the year 2020. The targets are ambitious: in order to meet sanitary health standards, nearly two million people (or 60% of the total population) living in 70 towns and villages would need to be served with sewerage systems. Providing all these areas with separate wastewater treatment plants would be impractical. The centralization of treatment at a limited number of treatment plants for clusters of towns and villages has advantages in terms of manageability, cost and environmental protection. In the master plan the configuration of these clusters is presented. For that purpose a stepped approach has been developed: an approach in which aspects such as construction and operation costs of the facilities, existing infrastructure, the geography of the governorate, environmental impact, alternative treatment technologies and phasing of implementation have been considered. An important element of the stepped approach is an analytical model with which - from financial point of view - the optimum size of a cluster can be estimated. Variables of the model are sizes of towns and villages, distances and treatment technologies. The output of the model is a set of general design criteria which has been applied to the specific situation in the governorate. The model has contributed to the establishment of the Master Plan for Wastewater: a plan now used by the Fayoum Sanitation Department as a framework to initiate new projects and to direct the activities of other agencies working in the sanitation sector in the governorate.

scholarly journals Cost of Urban Wastewater Treatment and Ecotaxes: Evidence from Municipalities in Southern Europe

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Encarnación Moral Pajares ◽  
Leticia Gallego Valero ◽  
Isabel Román Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Urban Wastewater ◽  
Urban Wastewater Treatment

The principle of cost recovery established by the Water Framework Directive underlines the need for tax rates, which can raise enough revenue to finance the cost of treatments applied to wastewater. The objective of this research is to gain an understanding the different types of charges related to urban wastewater treatment that can be levied by the authorities responsible for this service. This paper also aims to determine whether these taxes contribute to guaranteeing the economic feasibility of the wastewater treatment plants. The proposed methodological approach is applied to 18 municipalities of a province in southern Europe in 2017. The results confirm that in most of these cases, the taxes levied do not guarantee adequate tax revenues to cover the running, maintenance and investment costs of municipal wastewater treatment plants. This situation leads to a lack of financial self-sufficiency in the wastewater management service, meaning that the imbalance between income and expenditure has to be covered by government subsidies. The results of this study will help guide authorities around the world that are in charge of managing urban wastewater treatment services.

scholarly journals ARIMA Time Series Models for Full Truckload Transportation Prices

Forecasting ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
Estimated Parameters ◽  
Coefficients Of Variation ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Practical Implications

The trucking sector in the United States is a $700 billion plus a year industry and represents a large percentage of many firms’ logistics spend. Consequently, there is interest in accurately forecasting prices for truck transportation. This manuscript utilizes the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) methodology to develop forecasts for three time series of monthly archival trucking prices obtained from two public sources—the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Truckstop.com. BLS data cover January 2005 through August 2018; Truckstop.com data cover January 2015 through August 2018. Different ARIMA models closely approximate the observed data, with coefficients of variation of the root mean-square deviations being 0.007, 0.040, and 0.048. Furthermore, the estimated parameters map well onto dynamics known to operate in the industry, especially for data collected by the BLS. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Wyposażenie obszarów wiejskich w systemy odprowadzania ścieków na przykładzie gmin powiatu olsztyńskiego

2018 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Mirosława Witkowska-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Local Approach ◽  
Septic Tanks ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
The Town

The purpose of the study was to evaluate, in a local approach, the state of supply of rural areas in a rural district with household wastewater management systems, with the focus on home wastewater treatment plants. The study covered the rural areas of the district of Olsztyn. The data, which were acquired from the Bank of Local Data, were processed through basic mathematical transformations and statistical measures. The structure and intensity indices were calculated per 1,000 residents. Large differences were found in the access to linear infrastructure and to individual systems of wastewater discharge. The results showed a constant increase in the number of home wastewater treatment plants and septic tanks due to the constant influx of people to villages lying around the town of Olsztyn. In contrast to studies conducted on a regional scale, no decrease in the number of septic tanks was observed correlated with the growing number of home wastewater treatment plants. A possible reason can be the specific environmental conditions and protection of inland waters, which limit possible locations of home wastewater treatment plants.

scholarly journals Assessment of wastewater management in Mekong river delta region

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Dang Thi Thanh Huyen ◽  
Trinh Dinh Lai
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Treatment Demand

Mekong River Delta is an important delta of Vietnam, which is located at the downstream of Mekong River. With the high urbanization and industrialization, this region has been facing more intense environmental threats. This study was conducted to assess the current wastewater management in the region. Initial survey results revealed that there was only 8 wastewater treatment plants, meeting requirement of 6.9% of treatment demand, and the sewer coverage was 69%. The low environmental protection fees can not help cover the operation cost of sewerage system and wastewater treatment plants. Sludge treatment has been neglected. Therefore, more proactive in improving the wastewater sector and protecting their environment should be implemented from local authorities for the sustainable development in the future in the region. Keywords: wastewater management; Mekong river delta; environmental protection.

scholarly journals Multi-scale CO2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomeng Gu ◽  
Andrew Viggo Metcalfe ◽  
Gary Glonek
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Arma Models ◽  
Deterministic Models ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Exponential Trend ◽  
Sampling Intervals

Abstract Five time series of estimated atmospheric CO 2 with sampling intervals ranging from 0.5 million years to the relatively high frequency of one week are analysed. The yearly series shows a clear increasing trend since the beginning of the first Industrial Revolution around 1760. The weekly series shows a clear increasing trend and also seasonal variation. In both cases, the trend is fitted by a conceptual model that consists of a baseline value with an exponential trend superimposed. For the weekly series, the seasonal variation is modelled as an exponential of a sum of sine and cosine terms. The deviations from these deterministic models are treated as detrended and deseasonalised time series.Then,threesub-categoriesof autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models are fitted to the five time series: ARMA models which are stationary; FARIMA models which are stationary but have long memory and are fractal processes, and ARIMA models which are variations on a random walk and so non-stationary in the variance.The FARIMA and ARIMA models provide better fits to the data than the corresponding ARMA models. All the fitted models are close to the boundary of stability, and are consistent with claims that climate change due to an increase in atmospheric CO 2 may not quickly be reversed even if CO 2 emissions are stopped.

scholarly journals Current status of textile wastewater management practices and effluent characteristics in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Bidu ◽  
B. Van der Bruggen ◽  
M. J. Rwiza ◽  
K. N. Njau
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Textile Wastewater ◽  
Effluent Treatment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Wet Processing ◽  
Colored Wastewater

Abstract Textile wastewater from wet processing units is a major environmental problem. Most chemicals including dyes are only partly consumed, resulting in highly colored wastewater containing a variety of chemicals released into the environment. This paper gives information on the current management of textile wastewater in Tanzania. A semiquantitative analysis was done to identify the main types of chemicals used in wet processing units, wastewater characteristics and existing wastewater treatment methods in the textile industry. The performance evaluation of the existing wastewater treatment plants is also discussed. The advantages of integrating constructed wetlands with the existing treatment facilities for textile wastewater are explained. It has been observed that pretreatment and dying/printing of the fabrics are the main two processes that produce wastewater in many textile companies. Main pollutants are chemicals used from pretreatment and materials removed from de-sizing, bleaching and scouring processes. Dyes, printing pigments and dye auxiliaries are the main pollutants from the dyeing/printing process. Most of the textile companies in Tanzania are equipped with effluent treatment plants. Wastewater treatment plants have basically similar units, which are coagulation-flocculation, sedimentation through clarifiers and aerobic reactor. However, their effluents do not meet discharge limits stipulated by the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS).

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