Poseidon—Decision Support Tool for Water Reuse
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Institute for Ecopreneurship, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Hofackerstrasse 30, 4132 Muttenz, Switzerland
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Department of Natural Resources Development and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
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Water 2019, 11(1), 153; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010153
Received: 6 December 2018
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Revised: 9 January 2019
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Accepted: 10 January 2019
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Published: 16 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
In an era when many water systems worldwide are experiencing water stress regarding water quantity and quality, water reuse has received growing attention as one of the most promising integrated mitigating solutions. Nevertheless, the plethora of technologies and their combinations available, as well as social, economic, and environmental constraints, often make it complex for stakeholders and especially decision makers to elicit relevant information. The scope of the current study is to develop a decision support tool that supports pre-feasibility studies and aims at promoting water reuse and building capacities in the field. The tool developed currently encompasses 37 unit processes combined into 70 benchmark treatment trains. It also contains information on water quality standards and typical wastewater qualities. It estimates the removal performances for 12 parameters and the lifecycle costs including distribution. The tool and all underlying data are open access and under continuous development. The underlying systemic approach of the tool makes it intuitive also for users with limited prior knowledge in the field to identify most adequate solutions based on a multi-criteria assessment. This should help to promote water reuse and spearhead initiates for more detailed feasibility and design commissioning for implementation of water reuse schemes.
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Keywords:
water reuse (WR); decision support tool (DST); option selection; wastewater recycling; water reclamation; integrated water resources management (IWRM); unit processes (UP); treatment trains (TT); multi-criteria analysis (MCA)
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Externally hosted supplementary file 1
Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1971933
Link: https://zenodo.org/record/1971933#.XK7xuyB5vIU
Description: Poseidon - Decision Support Tool for Water Reuse (Microsoft Excel) and Handbook -
Externally hosted supplementary file 2
Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1247434
Link: https://zenodo.org/record/1247434#.XK7x4yB5vIU
Description: Wastewater Treatment Unit Processes Datasets: Pollutant removal efficiencies, evaluation criteria and cost estimations -
Externally hosted supplementary file 3
Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1972627
Link: https://zenodo.org/record/1972627#.XK7yACB5vIU
Description: Treatment Trains for Water Reclamation (Dataset) -
Externally hosted supplementary file 4
Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1252341
Link: https://zenodo.org/record/1252341#.XK7yKyB5vIU
Description: Water Quality Classes - Recommended Water Quality Based on Guideline and Typical Wastewater Qualities
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Oertlé, E.; Hugi, C.; Wintgens, T.; Karavitis, C.A. Poseidon—Decision Support Tool for Water Reuse. Water 2019, 11, 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010153
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Oertlé E, Hugi C, Wintgens T, Karavitis CA. Poseidon—Decision Support Tool for Water Reuse. Water. 2019; 11(1):153. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010153
Chicago/Turabian StyleOertlé, Emmanuel, Christoph Hugi, Thomas Wintgens, and Christos A. Karavitis. 2019. "Poseidon—Decision Support Tool for Water Reuse" Water 11, no. 1: 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010153
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