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Modern urban water management is a very complex process. It consists of various aspects of Engineering, Economics, Bio-chemistry, Sociology and much more. The idea of stream is to enable researchers to develop new and innovative solutions to problems encountered by engineers, chemists and operators. Students can expect to spend around 75% of their time on a research option chosen from seven areas of expertise:

Asset management

The main aim of stream research is to develop a reliable and fully-functional asset management strategy at two levels: performance and specific aspects of asset management.
We believe, that water management should be implemented within an environment consisting of near real-time network control and operational management on a global scale. We hope that our research will extend the range of available technologies, techniques and services used for capturing, modelling and managing knowledge in all aspects of water asset management.

Inlets, outlets and interactions
The behaviour of sewage and potable water systems infrastucture under various circumstances plays a very important part in urban water management. Through our research we aim to improve our understanding of all aspects of how ancillary systems perform. This includes analysis of interactions between flow and quality of sewage and water distribution networks. It also covers the relations between the underground sewerage system and its effects on ground surface flows in case of flood events.

Instrumentations and control
Reliable water management apparatuses are essential for providing the best possible services to everyone within water distribution network. As a part of stream, we aim to design new models and techniques to supply water companies with more effective and robust instrumentation and control technologies.

Potable water
Potable water research is related to the distribution systems, in both underground and surface pipe networks. There are a wide range of research possibilities because of the number of aspects related to pipe networks and distribution systems. Potable water studies mostly concentrate on providing practical knowledge and solutions for asset management and performance modelling, through artificial intelligence and online modelling up to water quality interactions and transformations and much more.

Sewer processes
Investigation of processes occurring inside the sewage networks extends the knowledge about deposition, behaviour and erosion of sewer sediments. Research also includes study of biofilm development and degradation ability of the bacterial consortium.

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS)
The sustainable drainage systems offer a new approach to drainage systems by simulating natural environments and techniques instead of using conventional pipes to allow excess water flow to the rivers. The main focus of research in this area is to determine the best ways of using SUDS to minimize flooding issues. It also concentrates on improving performance of sustainable drainage systems, especially green roofs, and everyday social and technical impact of the use of SUDS in a new housing development. Read more ...

 

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