Development of the Integrated Simulation and Optimisation Tool SYNOPSIS

Abstract

The main processes in the urban wastewater system and their representation in models have been presented in the previous chapter. The present chapter outlines the development of the integrated simulation and optimisation tool (named SYNOPSIS - “Software package for synchronous optimisation and simulation of the urban wastewater system”), which is to be used for the studies described in later chapters of this book. The development of the tool starts with the definition of a list of requirements (Section 3.1), which are based on the discussion of the previous chapter. According to these requirements, three existing software packages are selected for implementation in SYNOPSIS (Section 3.2). Section 3.3 describes their integration to an integrated simulation tool. This section also discusses the problems encountered when connecting the simulation programs. Implementation of control options is detailed in Section 3.4. Section 3.5 discusses the implementation of the optimisation procedures selected in Section 2.5 and their interfaces with the simulation tool.