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- A new framework is created to model how chlorine decays in water systems, taking into account factors like pH and temperature.
- The model uses identifiable parameters to simulate chlorine decay across various water conditions, allowing for simultaneous analysis of different systems.
- A case study highlights the framework's effectiveness, revealing that a model with two reactive species is more accurate than those with either one or three.
Article Abstract
A general framework for modeling the bulk chlorine decay that accommodates effects of pH, temperature in water distribution system and in-home heating profiles is developed. With a single set of readily interpreted parameters, and various fictive concentrations of reactive constituents in the water, chlorine decay for the different water systems could be simultaneously modeled. Differential Evolution is employed to estimate the parameters stochastically. By using Bayesian Information Criterion, it is shown that a model consisting of two reactive species is preferred over models that consist of one or three reactive species. The flexibility and power of the framework is demonstrated with a case study of both types of effects.
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