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Evaluation Protocols for the Optimization of Water Treatment Plants

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In recent years, water treatment is becoming more important and in the future the number of water treatment plants (WTPs) is destined to increase. However, plants often operate less than optimally from a resource management point of view. This lack of efficiency in WTPs can lead to a drop in pollutants removal yields, an increase in operating costs as well as a waste of resources, in opposition to the concept of circular economy. In this work, a methodological approach useful to identify the critical treatment phases and evaluate the effectiveness of the diverse upgrade interventions has been proposed. Performance indicators useful for the characterization of the WTPs, after a preliminary monitoring phase, are presented. In addition, examples of functionality tests applied to real WTPs are shown.

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  1. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Maria Cristina Collivignarelli, Marco Carnevale Miino, Francesca Maria Caccamo & Silvia Calatroni

  2. Interdepartmental Centre for Water Research, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Maria Cristina Collivignarelli

  3. Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Via Branze 43, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    Alessandro Abbà & Giorgio Bertanza

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Collivignarelli, M.C., Abbà, A., Carnevale Miino, M., Caccamo, F.M., Calatroni, S., Bertanza, G. (2022). Evaluation Protocols for the Optimization of Water Treatment Plants. In: Ivascu, L., Cioca, LI., Filip, F.G. (eds) Intelligent Techniques for Efficient Use of Valuable Resources. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09928-1_9

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