Water treatment units residence-time distributions as probabilistic functions

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 944-952

  Tzatchkov, Velitchko G ^a   Buchberger, Steven G ^b   Martin Dominguez, Alejandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE TECNOLOGÍA DEL AGUA   (Mexico)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical models; Nonuniform flow; Probability; Probability density functions; Reactors; Residence time; Water treatment plants

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; LEAST SQUARE; ME-XICO; MS EXCEL; NONIDEAL FLOWS; NONUNIFORM FLOW; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC FUNCTIONS; REACTORS; REACTORS IN SERIES; RESIDENCE TIME; RESIDENCE-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; RTD MODEL; TRACER TESTS; TRAVEL TIME; WATER TREATMENT UNIT;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TUBE DIODES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FLOW PATTERN; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; SIMULATION; STAGNATION FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 70349342737     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2009)135:10(944)     Document Type: Article

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