Thogare N. Shridhara, Samson O. Ojoawo^*, Pilli V. Mahaganesha, Mallaura R. Thippeswary, Rahul Anand, Bevinahalli P. Sharath

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Department of Civil Engineering, NMAM Institute of Technology, Udupi District, India.
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Abstract: Water-Decision Support System (DSS) tools enhance decision-makings towards improved water supply in a given region. The rigours of manual design of the conventional water treatment plants are easily eliminated with the use of softwares as in the case of DSS. Therefore, this paper focuses on the development of a Water-DSS for design of treatment plant in Karkala Town, Udupi District of India. A four-decade population projection was made using the baseline data of 1971 till date. The manual computation for water demand, unit operations and adjoining facilities was carried out and later coded in C-programming language for development of a DSS for easier design and process selection. Data validation was done and results from the two approaches were compared. With the C-programming technique, a decision support tool for design and process selection of drinking water treatment plant using conventional method has been developed and named Water-DSS1. The designed tool is simple, accurate, flexible, efficient and universal, easily adaptable to any similar conventional treatment plant. Water-DSS1 is thus recommended for general use in ultimately alleviating water supply challenges.

Keywords: Decision Support System, Treatment Plant, C-Programming, Water Supply

Cite this paper: Shridhara, T. , Ojoawo, S. , Mahaganesha, P. , Thippeswary, M. , Anand, R. and Sharath, B. (2014) C-Language Programming for Development of Conventional Water Treatment Plants Decision Support System. Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering, 3, 129-139. doi: 10.4236/cweee.2014.34014.

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