Modelling Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Reuse for Tank Size Optimizations

10 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Sara Simona Cipolla and Marco Maglionico

Abstract

In the light of water shortages, frequently affecting many regions worldwide, domestic rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse systems represent an alternative source to provide non-potable water in buildings, reducing the water demand from mains water supply systems. This study fits this framework providing a methodology, based on a hydraulic/hydrological model developed by means of the EPA’s Storm Water Management Model, which allow optimizing the system design by giving the opportunity to the user to consider different catchments surfaces (impervious, gravel and green roofs), plant's configurations, user’s habits, water end-uses, and climate conditions. The model has used to model a residential building, located in the city of Bologna (Italy), and equipped with a hybrid greywater/rainwater system. Continuous simulations were performed with 13 years daily rainfall data, and the long-term performance of different system combinations were evaluated. The case study showed a non-potable water saving efficiency of 75.86%, which accounts by 26.71% mains water withdrawal. The final goal of this paper is those of presenting the hydrological/hydraulic model that has been used as engine of a calculator tool for sizing and planning hybrid rainwater/greywater systems.

Keyphrases: grey water recycling, rain water harvesting, swmm, water saving

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 460-469.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/XFgK
	https://doi.org/10.29007/zwnv

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Modelling_Rainwater_Harvesting_Greywater,
  author    = {Sara Simona Cipolla and Marco Maglionico},
  title     = {Modelling Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Reuse for Tank Size Optimizations},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/XFgK},
  doi       = {10.29007/zwnv},
  pages     = {460-469},
  year      = {2018}}

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