title: Calibration of a simple model for waste stabilisation pond performance in seasonal climates.
abstract: The paper describes the calibration of a model for waste stabilisation pond (WSP) performance in seasonal climates, based on the use of readily available climate data sets. Calibration data were taken from a wide geographical area of Canada and the USA, including coastal and moderately seasonal sites. Good agreement with measured values was shown using a biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) decay constant of 0.3 day(-1) for facultative ponds and 0.07-0.1 day(-1) for storage/maturation ponds with a temperature-related Arrhenius constant of 1.05, and a fixed BOD decay constant of 0.007 day(-1) at water temperatures below 0 °C. The results suggested that such models could potentially be used as the basis for WSP design guidelines tailored to a wide range of climatic conditions.
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. sh7@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heaven
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Salter
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D002980:Climate; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014881:Water Supply