A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System

Sediment deposits in sewer system had been known to have adverse effects on the hydraulic performance of the system and also on the environment. Thus, the need for sewer system to carry sediment has been recognized for many years and self-cleansing criteria have been proposed in the literature for d...

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Main Author: Bong, C.H.J
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2014
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description Sediment deposits in sewer system had been known to have adverse effects on the hydraulic performance of the system and also on the environment. Thus, the need for sewer system to carry sediment has been recognized for many years and self-cleansing criteria have been proposed in the literature for design purposes. Conventionally, a minimum critical velocity or critical shear stress was specified and although this approach had been successful in many cases; it was appreciated that a minimum critical velocity or critical shear stress which is unrelated to the characteristics and concentration of the sediment or the hydraulic behavior of the sewer could not properly represent the ability of the sewer flows to transport sediments. A more viable approach for self-cleansing design is to incorporate some aspect of the sediment and sewer characteristics into the design criteria; hence, various self-cleansing design criteria for sewer have been proposed in the literature. This paper presents a review on the various self-cleansing design criteria for sewer and proposed some further studies that could be conducted to improve the existing self-cleansing design criteria.
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spelling unimas-139752016-10-19T02:04:11Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13975/ A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System Bong, C.H.J TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Sediment deposits in sewer system had been known to have adverse effects on the hydraulic performance of the system and also on the environment. Thus, the need for sewer system to carry sediment has been recognized for many years and self-cleansing criteria have been proposed in the literature for design purposes. Conventionally, a minimum critical velocity or critical shear stress was specified and although this approach had been successful in many cases; it was appreciated that a minimum critical velocity or critical shear stress which is unrelated to the characteristics and concentration of the sediment or the hydraulic behavior of the sewer could not properly represent the ability of the sewer flows to transport sediments. A more viable approach for self-cleansing design is to incorporate some aspect of the sediment and sewer characteristics into the design criteria; hence, various self-cleansing design criteria for sewer have been proposed in the literature. This paper presents a review on the various self-cleansing design criteria for sewer and proposed some further studies that could be conducted to improve the existing self-cleansing design criteria. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13975/1/A%20Review%20on%20the%20Self-Cleansing%20Design%20Criteria%20for%20Sewer%20System%20%28abstract%29.pdf Bong, C.H.J (2014) A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System. UNIMAS e-Journal of Civil Engineering, 5 (2). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1985-3874 http://www.feng.unimas.my/JCEST/
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Bong, C.H.J
A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title_full A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title_fullStr A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title_full_unstemmed A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title_short A Review on the Self-Cleansing Design Criteria for Sewer System
title_sort review on the self-cleansing design criteria for sewer system
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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