Instructor

Dwight Houweling, Ph.D., P.Eng., Principal Process Engineer, Dynamita North America

Dwight has 15+ years experience in the water industry working in academia, software, consulting, and on new product introduction for an equipment supplier. Dwight works for Dynamita North America Inc. on the development and commercialization of the new industry leading SUMO process modelling software.

Session Outline

·         A brief history of activated sludge models

·         Hey, I like working in Excel! When did simulation software become a “must have”?

·         Just a sludge production calculator?

·         Aeration modeling

·         Nitrification and BNR

·         Anammox and the “dirty little secret” about modelling NOB suppression

·         Clarifier modelling

·         MABR: a case study in validating equipment vendor claims

·         Sulfur, chemP and expanding model scope to keep up with the times…