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Oct 1973
Design of Optimal Sewerage Systems
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VIEW THE REPLYAuthors: Yerachmiel Argaman, AM.ASCE, Uri Shamir, and Eldad SpivakAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division
Volume 99, Issue 5
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The cost of sewerage systems constitute a major fraction of the overall cost of wastewater disposal. Optimal design of such systems can be approached by employing dynamic programming. A procedure by which the optimal design can be obtained has been developed. This procedure is not practical at the present time due to limitations in computer space and computation time. An alternative, more restrictive, procedure has been proposed by which a suboptimal design can be obtained at a reasonable computation effort. This optimization procedure has been applied to small sewerage networks, both hypothetical and real, where its usefulness was clearly demonstrated. Large sewerage systems may be decomposed to small subsystems, which are optimized internally, and later recombined to a single optimal network. Development of more advanced computers may render the procedure applicable for obtaining the absolute optimal design of large networks.
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Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division
Volume 99 • Issue 5 • October 1973
Pages: 703 - 716
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© 1973 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Oct 1973
Published online: Feb 11, 2021
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Yerachmiel Argaman, AM.ASCE
Sr. Lect.; Technion, Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa, Israel
Uri Shamir
Visiting Sci.; IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, NY; on leave as Assoc. Prof., Technion, Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa, Israel
Eldad Spivak
Sr. San. Engr.; Envir. Engrg. and Tech. (Israel) Ltd., Ramat Gan, Israel
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