Advances in Water Distribution System Water Quality Modeling

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

4:45 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

Room: Del Mar I

Moderator(s)

Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE

Professor
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Presentations:

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

Modeling Nicotine Induced Chlorine Loss with EPANET-MSX
Author: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Author: Benjamen Burkhart – US EPA
Author: Feng Shang – US EPA
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PDT

Determination of the Effective Dispersion Coefficient in A One-Dimensional Advection-Dispersion model using A Random Walk Particle Tracking Approach
Author: Feng Shang – US EPA
Co-Author: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

Inferring the stochasticity associated with modeling the biological stability of drinking water within distribution networks
Author (not presenting): Gopinathan R. Abhijith – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM PDT

Exploring Information Redundancy in Confirmatory Sampling Locations during a Contamination Event
Author: Camilo Salcedo (he/him/his) – The University of Arizona
Author (not presenting): Dominic L. Boccelli – The University of Arizona
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Effects of Key Water Quality Parameters on Lead Leaching from Water Service Pipelines
Author: Timothy Grgec, PE – City of Fort Worth
Co-Author: Jianpeng Zhou, PhD, P.E., F.EWRI – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM PDT

Black-box modeling of water quality in WDS for real-time control: case studies
Author: Laura K. Gonzalez, MSc (she/her/hers) – Universidad de los Andes
Author (not presenting): Dominic L. Boccelli – The University of Arizona
Author (not presenting): Juan Saldarriaga, M.Sc. (he/him/his) – Universidad de los Andes