Sewer System Planning Using Household Willingness to Pay Data PDF Download

Author: Venkateswarlu Swarna
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Category : Sanitation, Household
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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"The planning problem of this research deals with using household willingness to pay information to improve sewer system planning in less developed countries, particularly in selecting the regions to be served by sewers and in transporting the wastewater from these regions to a treatment plant through an optimal network of trunk sewers. To address the planning problem, this report has developed three planning models of varying mathematical complexity and has demonstrated their application for a hypothetical city. The first model, the least complex of the three, approaches the planning problem by assuming that trunk sewer costs can be ignored, and it solves the model with simple arithmetic calculations. This model is best for cities in which trunk sewer costs are negligible or are covered by subsidies. The second model considers trunk sewer costs and assumes trunk sewer routing. It uses linear programming to determine the optimal solution even though the model involves binary variables. This model is applicable where trunk sewer routing choices can be made based on engineering judgment. The final model, the most complex of the three, considers trunk sewer costs and it determines optimal trunk sewer routing. This model uses mixed integer programming for solution; it is most appropriate for regions in a city that are flat and distant from treatment plants, conditions which essentially do not present an obvious engineering basis for deciding trunk sewer routing."--leaf [i]