A practical protocol for calibration of nutrient removal wastewater treatment models

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-595

  Mannina, Giorgio ^a   Cosenza, Alida ^a   Vanrolleghem, Peter A ^b   Viviani, Gaspare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASM; Calibration protocol; GLUE; Identifiability; Sensitivity analysis; Wastewater treatment modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055005141     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.041     Document Type: Article

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