Water Quality

Water Quality

Healthy water is essential for life. A lot of policy (e.g. related to European Water Framework Directive) is aimed to protect or improve quality and ecology of water systems. With SOBEK-Rural 1DWAQ you can simulate water quality processes to investigate eutrophication, oxygen deficit, transportation of pollution or salt. During the one day course you will work with SOBEK-Rural 1DWAQ. Aim of this course is to extend your modelling toolkit with water quality modelling and improve your modelling skills.

Course background

Water Quality is dedicated to SOBEK-Rural 1DWAQ.
SOBEK-Rural 1DWAQ is an excellent tool for simulating water quality processes in 1D networks of SOBEK-Rural 1DFLOW or SOBEK-River 1DFLOW. It contains an extensive process library that covers standard chemical, physical and biological processes. A selection of various explicit and implicit solvers is available.

Participants

The course is aimed at river engineers and modellers from consultancy and engineering companies, provinces, water boards, municipalities and universities. The participants should have knowledge in basic hydrodynamic modelling in SOBEK. Some background in water quality issues is recommended.

Aim of the course

The goal of the Water Quality course is that the participant gets familiar with water quality modelling in SOBEK. The course focuses on how to use the SOBEK-Rural 1DWAQ module. The main subjects of the course are:

• An introduction to water quality problems and how to make a water quality model
• Introduction in fraction calculations (tracer calculations)
• Extend the basic model to a water quality model related to BOD and oxygen
• How to analyze the results of the model by concentration, mass balances and mass fluxes

After the course the participants have more experience in how to set up a water quality model in SOBEK and how to analyze the results of the model. Also the participants learn the basics in solving errors in the (hydrodynamic) models and learn how to use the benefits of fraction calculations during the calibration of hydrodynamic models.

Program

The program of Water Quality (in brief):

• Presentation: Theory on water quality
• Presentation: Introduction on numerical aspects
• Exercise: The Amstel river basin
• Presentation: Freshwater supply 2003
• Exercise: Suspended sediment in a shallow lake
• Exercise: Flexible water level management and eutrophication

Fee

The registration fee for this one day course, from 9:00 to 17:00 hrs, is € 565,- excluding VAT. 50% discount for lecturers at centres of education. The course fee includes course documentation, lunches and refreshments during the breaks. The fee does not include VAT. International participants from within the European Union are charged 0% VAT only when they provide their organizations VAT number. Participants from outside the European Union are exempt from VAT, hence 0% VAT will be charged. Please use the electronic form on this website for registration.

Related courses

Courses related to this course are:

• Hydrodynamics in Rivers and Channels (1D): learn more about flow in rivers and channels
• Urban Drainage: learn more about flow in sewerage systems
• Real Time Control: learn to optimize and control your watersystem with real time control.

Certificate

We provide a certificate of participation.

Location

Deltares, Stieltjesweg 2, 2628 CK Delft,The Netherlands.