Project Title and Description
One Water Management Practices for Philadelphia Water
Utilities traditionally manage drinking water and wastewater treatment separately. With new regulatory constraints, changing population, rising costs, and variable environmental factors (e.g., climate change), a paradigm shift toward integrated process management of drinking water and wastewater treatment, referred to as one water management, is of great interest to many municipalities. This proposal would be to evaluate the Philadelphia Water Department's drinking water and wastewater treatment systems in order to identify and design at least one integrated approach that would improve treatment objectives and lead to a minimization of operation costs. Examples of integrated process management include:
- combined wastewater solids and drinking water treatment residuals management
- optimal location(s) and type(s) of chemical addition - e.g., for coagulation
- optimal treatment of constituent (e.g., contaminant of emerging concern (CEC), disinfection by product (DBP), or DBP precursor
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Christopher Sales
Please contact the faculty advisor at cms566@drexel.edu.
Team Make-up by Discipline
2-3 Environmental Engineering students, 1-2 Civil Engineering students (for water resource management, consideration of structural systems in implementation of designs). Not approved for Architectural Engineering students.