Improvement of a System for Catchment, Pretreatment, and Treatment of Runoff Water Using PIV Tests and Numerical Simulation
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 140, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper studies how to improve the efficiency of a new system for catchment, pretreatment, and treatment of runoff water (SCPT). This system is integrated into an urban sustainable gravity settler that can decrease diffusive pollution. This study provides important advantages for the ecosystem by improving new sustainable drainage to clean runoff water. In this paper, an investigation methodology known as hybrid engineering (HE) was used. HE combines experimental tests and numerical simulations, both of them conducted on a 1:4-scale prototype. In this study, numerical simulations by the finite-volume method (FVM) and experimental tests by particle image velocimetry (PIV) were compared. A strong correlation between the numerical and experimental analysis was found. Next, the efficiency of the SCPT was optimized by design of experiments (DOE). Analysis of experimental and numerical results and their comparison are presented in this paper.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to express their gratitude to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for the research project BIA2009-08272 funding. Furthermore, the authors greatly appreciate the collaboration of J. A. Llaneza (University of Oviedo), John Bomidi, and Professor Sadeghi (Purdue University). Besides, we also thank Swanson Analysis Inc. for the use of the ANSYS University Research program. Finally, we would like to acknowledge to the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 140 • Issue 8 • August 2014
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Received: Sep 29, 2013
Accepted: Mar 21, 2014
Published online: Apr 23, 2014
Published in print: Aug 1, 2014
Discussion open until: Sep 23, 2014
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