Modeling the Chlorine Series from the Treatment Plant of Drinking Water in Constanta, Romania

Alina Bărbulescu; Lucica Barbeș

doi:10.3390/toxics11080699

Modeling the Chlorine Series from the Treatment Plant of Drinking Water in Constanta, Romania

Toxics. 2023 Aug 13;11(8):699. doi: 10.3390/toxics11080699.

Authors

Alina Bărbulescu¹, Lucica Barbeș^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil Engineering, Transilvania University of Brașov, 5 Turnului Str., 500152 Brasov, Romania.
² Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ovidius University of Constanța, 124 Mamaia Bd., 900152 Constanta, Romania.
³ Doctoral School of Biotechnical Systems Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 313, Splaiul Independentei, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.

Abstract

Ensuring good drinking water quality, which does not damage the population's health, should be a priority of decision factors. Therefore, water treatment must be carried out to remove the contaminants. Chlorination is one of the most used treatment procedures. Modeling the free chlorine residual concentration series in the water distribution network provides the water supply managers with a tool for predicting residual chlorine concentration in the networks. With regard to this idea, this article proposes alternative models for the monthly free chlorine residual concentration series collected at the Palas Constanta Water Treatment Plant, in Romania, from January 2013 to December 2018. The forecasts based on the determined models are provided, and the best results are highlighted.

Keywords: forecast; free chlorine residual concentration series; modeling; water treatment plant.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.