An efficient heuristic procedure for the optimal design of wastewater treatment systems

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-185

  Castro, Pedro M ^a,b   Matos, Henrique A ^b   Novais, Augusto Q ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Distributed treatment; Effluents; Mathematical programming; Optimisation solvers; Pollutants; Recycling; Water network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EFFLUENTS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECYCLING;

DISTRIBUTED TREATMENT; OPTIMIZATION SOLVERS; WATER NETWORK;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHMS; EFFLUENTS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECYCLING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; EFFLUENT; HEURISTICS; LINEAR PROGRAMING; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTANT; RECYCLING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 34047141729     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.06.013     Document Type: Article

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