"Optimatics is able to develop and analyse any number of desktop sewerage transfer system options and select the most suitable and cost effective planning strategy..."
Sara Saranathan - Senior Sewerage Planning Engineer, South East Water, Melbourne, Australia
Wastewater Solutions
Wastewater optimization is one of Optimatics’ specialized decision-support services. We work with our clients to combine engineering skill and experience with our powerful software tools to identify a range of near-optimal wastewater system configurations.
Wastewater utility managers and their stakeholders have great confidence in their preferred planning solution when using Optimatics’ technology to perform comprehensive analyses of improvement alternatives.
Improved Decision Making
Using our unique collection system optimization technologies, we combine engineering analysis with powerful computing tools to help you make faster, better, more sustainable decisions on collection system management. Using the Optimizer WCS decision support platform, you can now:
- Reduce the life-cycle cost of operations, maintenance and capital improvements... without sacrificing hydraulic performance!
- Determine Sewer System Improvement Projects (SSIPs) which represent the best combination of options using triple bottom line of environmental, economical and social impacts
- Develop an optimized Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) to achieve savings typically in the order of 15% to 30%
- Prioritize capital improvements to meet budget constraints
- Perform climate change scenario analyses
- Perform sensitivity analyses to develop robust and adaptable planning strategy
Collection System Improvement Alternatives
Optimizer WCS enables exhaustive analyses of the diverse multiple options that face Wastewater Utilities such as:
- Relief sewers
- New sewer alignments
- New or expanded pump stations
- New or expanded treatment plants
- Improved utilization of existing storage
- New storage facilities
- Weir elevations, pump controls and real-time control settings
- Infrastructure rehabilitation to reduce inflow and infiltration (I/I)
- Green infrastructure to reduce stormwater runoff
Empowering Engineers and Capitalizing on Hydraulic Models
Optimizer WCS makes use of the existing hydraulic model, allowing utilities to capitalize on the significant investments made to develop and calibrate the model. The optimization process builds on any existing planning studies which have been completed. It does not replace the hydraulic model, the hydraulic modellers or the engineering team but rather empowers them to make defensible decisions.
Optimizer WCS
Wastewater Collection Systems
Optimizer WCS is used as a planning tool to assist in creating an optimal collection system capital improvement plan. It provides the engineering team with an efficient and objective process to evaluate the full range of feasible improvement options.
Wastewater Case Studies
Optimatics has completed wastewater collection system optimization projects with wastewater utilities in Australia, the United States and New Zealand.
