'Classical' real-time control (RTC) strategies in sewer systems are based on water level and flow measurements with the goal of activation of retention volume. The control system rule of 'clean (storm water) runoff into the receiving water - polluted runoff into the treatment plant' has been thwarted by rough operating conditions and lack of measurements. Due to the specific boundary conditions in the city of Wuppertal's separate sewer system (clean stream water is mixed with polluted storm water runoff) a more sophisticated--pollution-based--approach was needed. In addition the requirements to be met by the treatment of storm water runoff have become more stringent in recent years. To separate the highly-polluted storm water runoff during rain events from the cleaner stream flow a pollution-based real-time control (P-RTC) system was developed and installed. This paper describes the measurement and P-RTC equipment, the definition of total suspended solids as the pollution-indicating parameter, the serviceability of the system, and also gives a cost assessment. A sensitivity analysis and pollution load calculations have been carried out in order to improve the P-RTC algorithm. An examination of actual measurements clearly shows the ecological and economic advantages of the P-RTC strategy.
As part of a research & development project commissioned by the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia's Ministry for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUNLV) an examination is being carried out of the general possibilities for centralised and decentralised treatment storm water runoff to be discharged into (canalised) receiving waters and the costs ensuing from this. The examination of the different options is being carried out under real conditions, with the Briller Creek (Wuppertal/Germany) and Müggen Creek (Remscheid/Germany) catchment areas being used as models. The range of investigations deals with a comparison between 'decentralised, semicentralised, centralised' storm water treatment, centralised storm water treatment involving a separate sewer and parameter-specific pollution based storm water runoff control. In the framework of the research project each of the variants is to be elaborated and the costs are to be calculated so as to permit a comparison between the different system designs. In particular, the investigations are to take into account the actual requirements to be met by storm water drainage systems involving separate sewage systems.
Abfiltrierbare Stoffe (AFS) werden als Indikatorparameter für die Verunreinigung von Oberflächenabflüssen und zur Wirksamkeitsbetrachtung von Regenwasserbehandlungsanlagen verwendet. Das Arbeitsblatt DWA-A 102 (DWA/BWK, 2020) empfiehlt den Feinanteil der Abfiltrierbaren Stoffe (AFS63) zur Bewertung der Verunreinigung von Niederschlagswasser und der durch Einleitung hervorgerufene Gewässerbelastung. Als AFS werden sämtliche Sink-, Schweb- und Schwimmstoffe bezeichnet, die ein Filter mit einer Porengröße von 0,45 µm zurückhält. Der Feinanteil AFS63 fasst die Abfiltrierbaren Stoffe der Größenordnung 0,45 µm bis 63 µm zusammen. Die Einflussgrößen und Bedingungen bei der Bestimmung des Parameters AFS63 sind jedoch komplex. Das beginnt bei der Entnahme einer repräsentativen Probe und setzt sich bis zur Bestimmung des Parameters fort. Während die Bestimmung der AFS in Normen geregelt ist, wird die verbindliche Bestimmung von AFS63 derzeit diskutiert. Vor dem Hintergrund, dass mit dem Parameter AFS63 die Wirksamkeit von Behandlungsanlagen nachgewiesen wird, ist eine korrekte Ermittlung zur Bilanzierung der Verunreinigung von Zu- und Abflüssen von besonderer Bedeutung. Als sinnvolle Ergänzung zur bisherigen Bestimmungsmethode hat sich eine vergleichsweise einfache und repräsentative Bestimmung mit einem Partikelzähler herausgestellt.
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