Nonlinear Partial Dierential Equations Model Related to Oxidation Pond Treatment System: A Case Study of mPHO at Taman Timor Oxidation Pond, Johor Bahru

Abstract

This study presents a mathematical model examining wastewater pollutant removalthrough an oxidation pond treatment system. This model was developed to describethe reaction between microbe-based product mPHO (comprising Phototrophic bac-teria (PSB)), dissolved oxygen (DO) and pollutant namely chemical oxygen demand(COD). It consists of coupled advection-diusion-reaction equations for the microor-ganism (PSB), DO and pollutant (COD) concentrations, respectively. The couplingof these equations occurred due to the reactions between PSB, DO and COD to pro-duce harmless compounds. Since the model is nonlinear partial dierential equations(PDEs), coupled, and dynamic, computational algorithm with a specic numericalmethod, which is implicit Crank-Nicolson method, was employed to simulate the dy-namical behaviour of the system. Furthermore, numerical results revealed that theproposed model demonstrated high accuracy when compared to the experimental data.Keywords Oxidation pond; nonlinear PDEs; PSB; implicit Crank-Nicolson.