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At present, increasingly requirements aiming resource efficiency and environmental sustainability demand more knowledge about the feasibility of implementation of such technologies in a large-scale as well as in the long-term. Even at modified sewage flows and compositions, water infrastructures must always remain reliable in order to guarantee a sustainable urban water management. Dimensioning methods and assessment variables must be adapted in order to achieve systems that are more flexible in the long-term. This paper aims to assess the actual impact of the implementation of sustainable sanitation systems in an existing sewage disposal system with means of a dynamic simulation. Various scenario simulations showed that the implementation of the module for BW/GW separation represents the investigated sustainable sanitation measures reliably with means of dynamic simulation. Moreover, the impact of the implementation of these measures and the consideration of population decline demand a more dynamical operational flexibility within the WWTP. To sum up, implementing this simplified approach for a stepwise integration of resource-oriented sanitation technologies allows a sewage system evaluation not only for dry weather conditions but also for stormwater conditions.
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The Foundation Carl Zeiss (Young Generation Sponsorship Program 2014–2017) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Dominican Republic (2017–2018) supported this research. Their contributions to the progress of the investigation are highly appreciated.
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Garcia, C.C., Alves, I.K. (2019). Implementing Sustainable Sanitation in an Integrated Model - A Straightforward Approach for Long-Term Simulation. In: Mannina, G. (eds) New Trends in Urban Drainage Modelling. UDM 2018. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99867-1_131
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