ABSTRACT
The objective of water and wastewater utilities, which are responsible for optimization of wastewater treatment plant operation, is threefold: environmental protection, saving money, and mitigation of pollutant emissions, both to water and air. The performed study aimed to assess the process generation of WWTP models that improve activated sludge systems operation, by means of new Mantis2 model. In order to conduct evaluation, a wastewater treatment plant layout was prepared with GPS-x ver. 6.4 software and used in a steady state and dynamic simulation. The paper concentrates on the WWTP layout, process definitions, influent wastewater elaboration, control handles, sensors, the benchmarking procedure and criteria of extended mathematical modelling and computer simulation evaluation.
