Optimal design of water networks involving single contaminant
This work presents the development of a systematic technique to target freshwater consumption and wastewater generation to achieve the maximum water recovery for systems involving single contaminant. A generic linear programming (LP) model has been developed based on water network superstructure to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UTM Press
2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utm.my/9990/ http://eprints.utm.my/9990/1/UTMjurnalTEK_51F_DIS%5B04%5D.pdf |
| Summary: | This work presents the development of a systematic technique to target freshwater consumption and wastewater generation to achieve the maximum water recovery for systems involving single contaminant. A generic linear programming (LP) model has been developed based on water network superstructure to simultaneously generate the maximum water recovery targets and design minimum water network, for both mass transfer-based and non-mass transfer-based problems (i.e., global water-using operations). The approach is illustrated by using an urban case study involving a mosque and an industrial case study involving an acrylonitrile process. The results show the potential maximum freshwater and wastewater reduction are 43.4% and 49.3% respectively for Sultan Ismail Mosque, and 70.6% and 37.7% for acrylonitrile process, which agree with the previous study performed using water cascade analysis technique |
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