In the last decades there have been thousands of accidental pollution spills as well as intentional illegal discharges into surface waters all over the world. The identification of pollution source parameters (e.g. the source location) has often proven difficult and heavily depends on measured pollutant concentration data collected after the incident. This thesis investigates how an adapted monitoring design can improve the identification of source parameters after a spill incident, especially in the case of estuaries. Initially, the effect of the spatial and temporal monitoring design on parameter identifiability is analyzed based on a synthetic unidirectional (river) as well as a bidirectional (estuary) test case is carried out. While the transport processes in the river could be represented by an analytical solution of the 2D advection-dispersion-reaction equation, to take into account the tidal dynamics in the estuary, a numerical transport model had to be set up with the Delft3D software suite. The results of the analysis indicate that parameter dependencies exist between different source parameters, which can weaken the identifiability of the individual parameters. However, an appropriate monitoring design can improve parameter identifiability and consequently lead to more reliable parameter estimates. To identify the source parameters after potential pollution incidents, two optimization approaches were selected in this work, which were initially applied to the synthetic bidirectional test case. Both approaches achieved very good results for both perfect and noise perturbed monitoring data. Subsequently, both optimization approaches were transferred to a real-world estuary, the Thi Vai Estuary, located in South Vietnam. To simulate pollution scenarios, a 2D hydrodynamic transport model was set up in Delft3D and calibrated based on monitoring data collected in the EWATEC-COAST research project. The synthetically generated monitoring data of an optimized monitoring network were then used to identify several ...


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    Titel :

    Pollution source identification and adequate design of a monitoring network in estuaries ; Identifikation von Schadstoffeinleitungen und angepasstes Design eines Monitoringnetzwerkes in Ästuaren



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-03-08



    Medientyp :

    Hochschulschrift


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    6 / 62 / 627 / 690





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