MUSIC for cost optimisation of stormwater treatment systems
by Monzur A. Imteaz; Amimul Ahsan
International Journal of Water (IJW), Vol. 9, No. 3, 2015

Abstract: A model of urban stormwater improvement conceptualisation (MUSIC) developed and widely used in Australia, estimates pollutant transport from catchments and stormwater treatment through different systems. MUSIC also provides life-cycle costing estimates for different treatment systems. Following a series of tests for several stormwater treatment systems' efficiencies around the world, MUSIC was further tested for a grass swale system in Taiwan. The tested model was then used for the cost optimisation of three different types of treatment systems: grass swale, bio-retention system and porous pavement. For each treatment system, cost verses expected pollutant removal efficiency curves are presented for the treatments of total suspended solids (TSS), total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN). Eventually, different systems were compared in regards to costs in achieving the same removal efficiency. It is found that within lower cost range, bioretention system will provide highest removal efficiency for all the three pollutants considered in this study.

Online publication date: Fri, 03-Jul-2015

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