Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Network

Abstract A simultaneous method has been developed to solve wastewater treatment network design problem with wastewater treatment technology choice. The approach consists in solving optimization model of a superstructure. Adaptive random search (ARS) method has been used as optimization technique. The approach accounts for various objectives. Structural issues such as forbidden connections can be taken into consideration. The tests proved that this approach is able to solve all the literature case studies reaching the results similar or even better than those from complex approaches with the use of sophisticated optimization algorithm.