Jinquan Tang’s scientific contributions

New simulation software has been developed at the Nanjing University Yixing Environmental Research Institute, for use in training, and to facilitate the use of simulation software for improving the performance of water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) in China. Computer simulation of WRRFs (formerly known as wastewater treatment plants or WTTPs) is useful for (i) design of new WRRFS, (ii) design of modifications to existing WRRFs, (iii) diagnostic analysis to understand the behaviour of existing WRRFs, (iv) design of new control strategies to improve the performance of WRRFs, and (v) training of operators, professionals and students. The new implementations are the first complete implementations in many years. This is also the first time that GoldSim has been used to simulate WRRFs. Rigorous comparison with the original benchmarks has allowed the developers to have confidence in their ability to represent all biochemical processes perfectly, and therefore to have confidence in their ability to customise models for individual WRRFs in China, with the same or similar unit processes.

New simulation software has been developed at the Nanjing University Yixing Environmental Research Institute, for use in training, and to facilitate the use of simulation software for improving the performance of water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) in China.Computer simulation of WRRFs (formerly known as wastewater treatment plants or WTTPs) is useful for: 1.design of new WRRFS, 2.design of modifications to existing WRRFs, 3.diagnostic analysis to understand the behaviour of existing WRRFs, 4.design of new control strategies to improve the performance of WRRFs, and 5.training of operators, professionals and students. The new implementations are the first complete implementations in many years. This is also the first time that GoldSim has been used to simulate WRRFs. The main reason for developing new software was the desire to have a standalone executable that can be launched by calls from an external control program. This will allow development and testing of new algorithms based on many simulations being run in parallel.