System for monitoring discharges into a waste water collection system
First Claim
1. A system for forecasting the composition of influx water received in a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) comprising:
- at least one means for monitoring water condition data on-site at individual waste water treatment sites remotely located from the WWTP which are constructed and arranged to discharge streams into the water collection system processed by the WWTP, said means to monitor water condition data operable to derive raw sensor data including time-stamped and location specific information on flow rate and composition of said discharge streams in association with a unique identifier corresponding to a particular waste water treatment site;
at least one communication means operable to transmit said raw sensor data via Internet technology to a remote location;
at least one software-implemented database resident on at least one computer configured to receive data transmitted from remote sources via Internet technology, wherein said at least one communication means transmits said data to said at least one database and said data is stored in said database;
at least one software-implemented web server resident on at least one computer configured to interface with said at least one database allowing said data to be accessed from a remotely-located client computer via Internet technology; and
a means to analyze said particular waste water treatment site water condition data transmitted from one or a plurality of particular waste water treatment sites based on known water flow patterns to calculate a predicted composition and flow rate of water arriving at the WWTP as a function of time resulting in analyzed data; and
a means to manipulate said raw data and analyzed data into an analysis result and a report result accessible from a remotely-located client computer via said software-implemented Web server.
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Abstract
A method for monitoring the composition and flow rate of wastes discharged from industrial waste water treatment facilities into a common collection system for eventual processing at central waste water treatment plant (WWTP). The information is transmitted to a remote computer and stored in a database, and is then analyzed to prepare reports of particular interest to the receiving WWTP or treatment facility. The system includes a data collection and sending unit, a remote Internet Server computer with a database capable of receiving and storing the collected information, and a web server and reporting unit to analyze the data, prepare reports, and send out alarms. It is a further intention of this invention to correlate the incoming data from said industrial waste water treatment plants with known flows and compositions at said central WWTP to predict the flow and composition of influx water at the WWTP.
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33 Claims
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1. A system for forecasting the composition of influx water received in a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) comprising:
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at least one means for monitoring water condition data on-site at individual waste water treatment sites remotely located from the WWTP which are constructed and arranged to discharge streams into the water collection system processed by the WWTP, said means to monitor water condition data operable to derive raw sensor data including time-stamped and location specific information on flow rate and composition of said discharge streams in association with a unique identifier corresponding to a particular waste water treatment site;
at least one communication means operable to transmit said raw sensor data via Internet technology to a remote location;
at least one software-implemented database resident on at least one computer configured to receive data transmitted from remote sources via Internet technology, wherein said at least one communication means transmits said data to said at least one database and said data is stored in said database;
at least one software-implemented web server resident on at least one computer configured to interface with said at least one database allowing said data to be accessed from a remotely-located client computer via Internet technology; and
a means to analyze said particular waste water treatment site water condition data transmitted from one or a plurality of particular waste water treatment sites based on known water flow patterns to calculate a predicted composition and flow rate of water arriving at the WWTP as a function of time resulting in analyzed data; and
a means to manipulate said raw data and analyzed data into an analysis result and a report result accessible from a remotely-located client computer via said software-implemented Web server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for forecasting the composition of influx water received in a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) comprising the steps of:
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providing a means for monitoring water condition data quality and water flow rate on-site at individual waste water treatment sites remotely located from the WWTP which are constructed and arranged to discharge streams into the water collection system processed by the WWTP, said means to monitor water condition data being operable to derive raw sensor data including time-stamped and location specific information on the flow rate and composition of said discharge streams in association with a unique identifier corresponding to a particular waste water treatment site;
providing at least one communications means operable to transmit said raw sensor data via Internet technology to a remote location;
providing at least one software-implemented database configured to receive said sensor data transmitted by said communications means;
providing at least one software-implemented web server configured to interface with said at least one database allowing said data to be accessed from a remotely-located client computer via Internet technology;
transmitting the raw sensor data via Internet technology to the at least one database;
storing the data and unique identifier in the at least one database where it can be asynchronously accessed through the at least one Web server;
analyzing the location-specific flow rate data and composition data transmitted from one or a plurality of particular waste water treatment sites based on known water flow patterns to calculate a predicted composition and flow rate of the water arriving at the WWTP as a function of time; and
manipulating the raw data and analyzed data into an analysis result and a report result accessible from a remotely-located client computer via the software-implemented Web server. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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