Intern
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Josep is studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Girona, Spain. He worked on his final project based on design of wastewater treatment plants with modelEAU at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada).
The project of Josep was framed within the ongoing research under the framework of “Risk-based design of wastewater treatment plants: Estimating the probability of compliance”. Particularly, he was in charge of developing a new model-based tool able to assess possible design sizing of a given plant configuration. An optimization tool should have been developed in which the objective function consists of achieving a given effluent limits and a certain probability of compliance. The uncertainty analysis has covered the most influential parameters which included: biochemical parameters, settling parameters, and hydraulic parameters. The ultimate goal of the project was to provide an alternative method of design to the traditional design guidelines generally used by engineers and consultants.