Simulation and optimization technologies for petroleum waste management and remediation process control

XS Qin, GH Huang, L He - Journal of Environmental Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Leakage and spill of petroleum hydrocarbons from underground storage tanks and pipelines
have posed significant threats to groundwater resources across many petroleum …

Pump‐and‐treat optimization using well locations and pumping rates as decision variables

C Huang, AS Mayer - Water Resources Research, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
A new optimization formulation for dynamic groundwater remediation management is
developed by simultaneously using well locations and the corresponding pumping rates as …

Risk‐based in situ bioremediation design using a noisy genetic algorithm

JB Smalley, BS Minsker… - Water Resources …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Risk‐based corrective action (RBCA) is rapidly becoming the method of choice for
remediating contaminated groundwater. In this paper, a management model is presented …

Optimal design for problems involving flow and transport phenomena in saturated subsurface systems

AS Mayer, CT Kelley, CT Miller - Advances in Water Resources, 2002 - Elsevier
Estimation problems arise routinely in subsurface hydrology for applications that range from
water resources management to water quality protection to subsurface restoration. Interest in …

Development of multiobjective management models for coastal aquifers

A Das, B Datta - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 1999 - ascelibrary.org
Management models are developed and solved that are based on the advective-dispersive
density-dependent miscible flow and transport processes in the aquifer. Various conflicting …

Comparison of optimization methods for ground-water bioremediation

JH Yoon, CA Shoemaker - Journal of Water Resources Planning …, 1999 - ascelibrary.org
This paper compares computational performance of eight optimization algorithms used to
identify the most cost-effective policy for in situ bioremediation of contaminated ground …

Solving large nonconvex water resources management models using generalized benders decomposition

X Cai, DC McKinney, LS Lasdon… - Operations …, 2001 - pubsonline.informs.org
Nonconvex nonlinear programming (NLP) problems arise frequently in water resources
management, eg, reservoir operations, groundwater remediation, and integrated water …

Design-operation of multi-hydropower reservoirs: HBMO approach

O Bozorg Haddad, A Afshar, MA Mariño - Water resources management, 2008 - Springer
To illustrate and test the applicability and performance of the innovative honey-bee mating
optimization (HBMO) algorithm in highly non-convex hydropower system design and …

Application of optimisation techniques in groundwater quantity and quality management

A Das, B Datta - Sadhana, 2001 - Springer
This paper presents the state-of-the-art on application of optimisation techniques in
groundwater quality and quantity management. In order to solve optimisation-based …

Dynamic optimal control of in-situ bioremediation of ground water

BS Minsker, CA Shoemaker - Journal of water resources planning …, 1998 - ascelibrary.org
A coupled optimal control and simulation model is presented that selects injection and
extraction well sites and pumping rates for cost-effective in-situ bioremediation design …