Transcript Sustainable (Urban) Drainage Systems Research Activities Related to Dr Miklas Scholz

Research Activities Related to
Sustainable (Urban)
Drainage Systems
Dr Miklas Scholz
Urban Water Research Group
Institute for Infrastructure and Environment
The University of Edinburgh
[email protected]
Contents
1. Constructed Wetlands Treating Gully Pot Liquor
2. Infiltration Ponds Treating Road Runoff
3. Below Ground Stormwater Detention Systems
4. SUDS Decision Support Model
5. Constructed Wetlands Treating Hydrocarbon
6. Permeable Pavement and Heat Transfer System
7. Integration of Trees into SUDS
8. Classification of Forested Flood Plains and SUDS
9. Recent Grant Initiative
10. Recent SUDS Journal Papers
11. New Book on Urban Water Control
1. Constructed Wetlands Treating
Gully Pot Liquor
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Twelve vertical-flow constructed wetland filters.
 Treatment of gully pot liquor plus metals.
 Modelling with CBR, KNN, SVM and SOM.
 Byoung-Hwa
Lee and others.
80
BOD (mg/L)
60
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0
1-Oct-02
20-Dec-02
Actual BOD
10-Mar-03
SOM
29-May-03
SVM
17-Aug-03
KNN
2. Infiltration Ponds Treating
Road Runoff
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Road runoff treatment: silt trap, gravel ditch,
constructed wetland, swale and infiltration ponds.
 High organic loads including dog droppings.
 Algal control with Goldfish and straw.
 Sara
Kazemi-Yazdi,
Hasan Nanbakhsh
and others.
 AWM Ltd.
3. Below Ground Storm water
Detention Systems
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Five AWM Limited test rigs for the treatment of
concentrated road runoff (gully pot liquor).
 Test components: ECOSOIL, sand, gravel,
pavement and turf; recently dog droppings.
 Initial findings: similar
performances; good effluent
quality (low in biochemical
oxygen demand).
 Sara Kazemi-Yazdi
and others.
4. SUDS Decision Support Model
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Assessment of 103, 79 and 16 potential SUDS sites
in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Penicuik.
 Development of a SUDS Decision Support Model.
 www.see.ed.ac.uk/research/IIE/research/environ/
uw12.html
 Detailed design and management guidelines.
 Piotr Grabowiecki, Pi Yin and others.
5. Constructed Wetlands Treating
Hydrocarbon
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Hydrocarbons from produced water (oil industry).
 Use of benzene as an example hydrocarbon.
 Inside and outside experimental wetland filters.
 Experimental data will be used for design
optimisation with the help of a numerical model.
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Controlled inside
environment to
support
modelling.
 Paul Eke Emeka
and others.
6. Permeable Pavement and
Heat Transfer System
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Permeable pavement systems for runoff collection,
storage, infiltration and/or recycling.
 Integration of heating and cooling systems to reduce
energy costs for domestic and commercial
developments.
 Outside and inside experiments.
 Piotr
Grabowiecki.
 Formpave;
Water Furnace.
7. Integration of Trees into SUDS
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Assessment of SUDS opportunities for 200 sites.
 Integration of existing trees into retrofitting of
SUDS.
 Estimation of direct economical savings, if the
SUDS design is altered due to the impact of trees on
intercepting rainfall.
 Case studies: Glasgow and
Edinburgh.
 Markus Englmeier and others.
 Further research collaboration is
welcome.
8. Classification of Forested
Flood Plains and SUDS

Alexander von
Humboldt
Foundation grant.
 Six months of work
at The University of
Freiburg (Germany).
 Integration of SUDS
into wetlands.
 Research is part of a
large EU project.
9. Recent Grant Initiative
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Creation of a Virtual Urban Water Management
Centre (EPSRC).
 Development of a Sustainable Urban Drainage
System Decision Support Model.
 Decision support modelling with CBR, KNN, SVM
and SOM.
 Case study sites throughout the UK.
 Sustainable urban drainage systems, constructed
treatment wetlands and waste management.
 Modelling with machine learning techniques.
 33 national and international partners.
10. Recent SUDS Journal Papers
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Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.
Environmental Engineering Science.
Water Science and Technology.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil
Engineering (journal).
Water and Environmental Management Journal (The
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental
Management)
Water International.
Journal of Urban Planning and Development – American
Society of Civil Engineers.
The International Journal of Environmental Studies.
International Journal of Water.
11. New Book on Urban Water
Control
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Wetlands Systems for Urban Runoff Control.
 Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 Estimated publishing date: spring 2007.
 Target group: wetland and SUDS communities;
academics, consultants, local authorities and NGOs.
 Urban water management and pollution control.
 Natural and constructed wetlands.
 Sustainable (urban) drainage systems.
 Biofiltration systems.
 Recent research and industrial case studies.