Modelling a Water Treatment Plant in Simulink®

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So here I'm starting my first chemical engineering modelling project for CHESimulator. In this project I'm going to model a simplified model for the operations of a water treatment plant using one of the important mathematical modelling software Simulink^® developed by Mathworks. Simulink provides a graphical editor, customizable block libraries, and solvers for modelling and simulating dynamic systems. It is integrated with MATLAB^®, enabling us to incorporate MATLAB algorithms into models and export simulation results to MATLAB for further analysis. In this modelling problem I'm going to use only the customizable block libraries provided by the Simulink interface to model a intelligent mathematical interface for a simple water treatment plant operations.

First of all I thank Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenmann, Professor for Computer Science, Department of Engineering, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences for introducing myself into the power of Simulink to engineer these type of modelling problems in a recent MATLAB MOOC.

Here I'm going to execute the project in a series of blog post's, in each of which I would like to include modelling of separate sections of the water treatment plant based on important water parameters depicted as in IS 10500 (2012) : DRINKING WATER SPECIFICATION. The important parameters under consideration in this model are : Sand concentration and grain size, Mass density, Turbidity, Volumetric flow rate, and concentrations of Aluminium, dissolved organic carbon, chloride, dry matter, organic dry matter, E. Coli, Coliform Bacteria and Enterococci.

The whole modelling project is divided into various sub blog post's as :

• Modelling water parameters according to parameters under consideration.
• Modelling of grit chamber
• Modelling of coagulation basin
• Modelling of sedimentation basin
• Modelling of filter
• Modelling of Ultraviolet Disinfection System

After modelling these sections combine whole model into a single Simulink domain such that it can be executed as a simplified universal model for a water treatment plant.

Recommended Simulink tutorials : 
example tutorial website -  University of Michigan


Quick start on process control :
Simulink for Process Control (click here) 

Simulink Detailed :
Simulink User Manual 

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