Multiple pollutant discharge permit markets, a challenge for wastewater treatment plants

Jamshidi, Shervin; Niksokhan, Mohammad Hossein

doi:10.1080/09640568.2015.1077106

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“…On this condition, water quality violation would be minimized for a 20-year period (Dinar & Quinn, 2022). Likewise, it was previously emphasized that the practicability of pollution removal in WWTPs (Jamshidi & Niksokhan, 2016) and the economic motivations of markets for permit sellers (Imani et al, 2017) in WLA are as vital as pollution removal e ciencies. By the new outcomes of this research, it can be added that the economical objectives with practical issues are determining for durable groundwater quality management.…”

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Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: An Approach for Groundwater Quality Management in Varamin Plain, Iran

Souri

Jamshidi

Moghaddam³

2022

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Groundwater quality management is challenging due to the fate and transport of multiple pollutants in the porous media, extensive polluters, and late aquifer responses to pollution reduction practices. Water quality trading (WQT) is a regionally incentive-based strategy for self monitoring and groundwater quality improvement. This study evaluates the effectiveness of 12 waste load allocation (WLA) scenarios on groundwater nitrate and chloride abatement, simultaneously using MODFLOW and MT3D. The theoretical efficiencies of multi-pollutant WQT are also testified out of these WLA policies by considering environmental, economic and practical conditions. For these purposes, Varamin plain, south eastern Tehran, Iran was chosen as the study area where both point and non-point emission sources were considered in WQT. At first, an allowable groundwater quality limit (AQL) was set for pollutants regarding groundwater impairment and simulation outcomes. The AQL violations of WLAs were then calculated in addition to their marginal abatement costs and penalties. Here, nitrate abatement ranges between 3.3–15.3% while chloride abatement ranges between 4.5–23.6%. However, 5 WLA scenarios could pass the conditions of not violating any AQLs, and gaining remarkable benefits (> 25%) for all market attendants. Potential WQT strategies are finally prioritized regarding their viability and marginal costs. According to these conditions, trading discharge permits between WWTPs with 25% nitrate removal (sellers) and current farmers (buyers) is recommended as the optimal WQT alternative which imposes no penalties or land-use changes. Here, the overall benefits of sellers and buyers exceed 42% and 85%, respectively in comparison with not attending at any WLA scenario.

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“…Eq. 1 has been recently developed with this purpose (Jamshidi & Niksokhan, 2016) and used in this study similarly.…”

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Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: An Approach for Groundwater Quality Management in Varamin Plain, Iran

Souri

Jamshidi

Moghaddam³

2022

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“…The TC can be defined per required biochemical oxidation demand (BOD) and N removal efficiencies in WWTPs regarding WLA scenarios. Equation 3 has been recently developed with this purpose (Jamshidi and Niksokhan, 2016) and is similarly used in this study.…”

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“…Equations 5 and 6, developed by Jamshidi and Niksokhan (2016), can assess WWTP costs per pollutant removal. These equations account the accumulated capital and operating costs per pollution treatment (BOD and NO3 removal) and inflow (Q).…”

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Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: A Conditional Approach for Groundwater Quality Management

Souri,

Jamshidi,

Moghaddam

2023

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Groundwater quality management is challenging due to the fate and transport of multiple pollutants in the porous media, extensive polluters, and late aquifer responses to pollution reduction practices. Water quality trading (WQT) is a region-specific and prompting policy to increase groundwater quality and self-remediation. This study evaluates the effectiveness of 12 waste load allocation (WLA) scenarios on groundwater nitrate and chloride abatement, simultaneously using MODFLOW and MT3DMs. The theoretical efficiencies of multi-pollutant WQT are also testified out of these WLA policies by considering environmental, economic and practical conditions. For these purposes, Varamin plain, south-eastern Tehran, Iran, was chosen as the study area where both point and non-point emission sources were considered in WQT. At first, an allowable groundwater quality limit (AQL) was set for pollutants regarding groundwater impairment and simulation outcomes. The AQL violations of WLAs were then calculated in addition to their marginal abatement costs and penalties. Here, nitrate abatement ranges between 3.3-18.3%, while chloride abatement ranges between 4.5-23.6%. However, 5 WLA scenarios could pass the conditions of not violating any AQLs, and gaining remarkable benefits (>25%) for all market attendants. Potential WQT strategies are finally prioritised regarding their viability and marginal costs. According to these conditions, trading discharge permits between wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with 50% nitrate removal (sellers) and current farmers (buyers) are recommended as the optimal WQT alternative, which imposes no penalties or land-use changes. Here, the overall benefits of sellers and buyers exceed 47% and 81%, respectively, in comparison with not attending any WLA scenario.

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“…More recently, Jamshidi and Niksokhan (2016) focused on the challenge of using a multiple pollutant transferable discharge permit market for operating wastewater treatment plants. They explored the trading discharge permits for the Sefidrud River in Iran, based on controlling BOD and total nitrogen [27]. In another study in 2016, Zolfagharipoor and Ahmadi used Monte-Carlo and QUAL2Kw to develop a new decision-making method called 'stochastic social choice rules' (SSCR), for wastewater discharge trading [28].…”

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Optimization of Pollutant Discharge Permits, Using the Trading Ratio System: A Case Study

Taheriyoun

Marzban

Geranmehr

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Water quality management of rivers is one of the challenges in the analysis of water resource systems. The optimal operation of the pollutant carrying capacity of these systems provides significant economic value and could reduce treatment costs. In this study, the application of the trading ratio system is investigated to control the cost of pollutants in a river and make a fair deal. In this regard, transfer coefficients between pollution sources, along with the trade coefficients, are determined, considering the system limitations and each pollutant’s contaminant impact. To provide allowable limits of river water quality concentrations, the total cost of all sources and the system is minimized, using the linear programming method. Finally, the new trading discharge permits are calculated for each source. The proposed method is successfully applied to Dez River as a case study. Results show that using a trading ratio system could maintain water quality at a standard level containing economic benefits for the participants of this program.

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Multiple pollutant discharge permit markets, a challenge for wastewater treatment plants

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: An Approach for Groundwater Quality Management in Varamin Plain, Iran

Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: An Approach for Groundwater Quality Management in Varamin Plain, Iran

Multi-Pollutant Water Quality Trading: A Conditional Approach for Groundwater Quality Management

Optimization of Pollutant Discharge Permits, Using the Trading Ratio System: A Case Study

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