In today’s applied road sewage drains only a small amount of particles originating from road sewage is removed by sedimentation. In addition during heavy rain events, parts of the sedimented particles are remobilised time and again resulting in a poor efficiency of pollutant removal. However, the space for centralised road sewage treatment plants is often limited, so that decentralised systems have to be applied.
Existing road sewage drains are only replaced by more efficient types in the course of road reconstruction. However, there is the possibility of improving pollutant removal by upgrading existing drains with an upgrade unit. Therefore, the above-mentioned upgrade unit shall be developed within the here proposed project. Thus, the sedimentation of particles shall be enhanced and the remobilisation of settled particles shall be decreased.
The upgrade unit shall be developed in a computerised model using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) followed by an optimisation within laboratory tests. In the final part of the project the efficiency of the new system shall be tested under real-life conditions, compared with theoretical values and thus optimised. In addition, the expenses for operation and maintenance as well as the practicability shall be determined. The upgrade unit developed shall be easy to install, shall not have any negative impact on the pumping of the sewage, and shall ideally lead to extended maintenance intervals.