Sewer Network Model of a City with a Medium-Sized Population

Abstract

A model of a sewer network for a medium city located in Easter Romania with 250,000 inhabitants is presented in the paper. The model was developed using BSM Sewer software package. An influent was also determined considering the 5 collecting areas and defined on a time- horizon of 28 days. The influent has the following components: a domestic one calculated using the average wastewater production of each inhabitant with specific loads and considering daily, weekly and yearly variations, a pluviometric one proportional to the collecting area surface that includes a rain event and a storm one and an industrial influent (considered only for the 5th collecting area). The model was tested in different operating conditions of the sewer network considering three operating points given by the values of the valve opening and pumps flows at the tank outlets. The results were analyzed based on 10 performance indicators implemented by researchers from Lund University for BSM Sewer. They showed the need for an optimization of the operating regime of the sewer network in terms of volume and quality of discharged water.