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A Case Study on the Selection of Purification Project of Lake MATEC Web of Conferences 22, 004 13 (2015) DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/20152204 013 C Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2015 A Case Study on the Selection of Purification Project of Lake Shilong Shen & Wei Liu College of Water Resources and Environment, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China Zhangcheng Yuan Nari Technology Development Limited Company, Nanjing, China ABSTRACT: This paper will mainly talk about best scheme for the water purification project of the Lake. The engineering used the water diversion metabolism method to purify the water. If the lake area and the water vol- ume are small, the metabolic cycle is relatively short; if the lake area and the water volume are large, the meta- bolic cycle is relatively long. Simultaneously, the larger the water flow is, the shorter the metabolic cycle period is and the higher the average metabolic rate is. The process of the water metabolism is in agreement with the direction of the water flow movement. With the gradual metabolism of water, different water bodies begin to dilute and diffuse. The engineers will choose the most appropriate water division project according to different water division volumes and water division routes. Keywords: water metabolism; water quality; water environmental remediation project; Water metabolism cycle 1 INTRODUCTION 2 ESTABLISHMENT OF MATHEMATICAL MODEL 1.1 The Cihu Lake water purification pro- ject alternatives Cihu Lake is located in the southeast of Hubei Prov- ince, together with Qinggang Lake in the same basin, The lake provides abundant water resources for man- among which Cihu Lake is the biggest one, which is kind, and provides a wealth of tourism, vacation and about 9.17 km2. Qingshan Lake locates in North of leisure resources of spirit, but also receives more and Qinggang Lake, whose water area is 0.52 km2, and more all kinds of pollution, such as, people dumping Qinggang Lake’s water area is 0.70 km2. These lakes garbage, waste water, sewage and other pollution. Due are linked with tunnel, culvert and ecological port to the lack of protection methods of the ecological channel. As water diversion area, Qingshan Lake and environment, more and more industrial and biological Qinggang Lake are both added into the scope of nu- sewage pollutants have caused the extinction of bio- merical simulation; according to the lake size and logical resources and deterioration of water quality, connection status, in order to simulate the water me- which has brought serious disaster to human beings. tabolism at initial time, we assume that the lake con- More and more people are concerned about the prob- tains one unit, then the introduction of water tracer lems of the protection of the ecological environment. concentration is 0, and after a period of water diver- In order to be able to grow in a healthy atmosphere, it sion, the tracer concentration in the lake is 0.7. As a is necessary for us to put forward a new scheme for result, the water metabolism rate is 30%. controlling pollution. If we know the water’s stable The formula for computing the metabolism rate is velocity of the lake and the approximate number of shown as follows˖ pollutants, we can take emergency measures to control (1 ) 100% (1) pollutants. The lake water governance is a difficult ii Where, is metabolic rate of the i in Lake area; task, because in general the lake covers a relatively i large area, and the pollution source is more compli- i is the tracer concentration in the i Lake area; Cihu cated. It is difficult to specify all the pollution causes. Lake shoreline twists and turns, contains more than Usually in control of water pollution by the water one lake, and the shape is irregular, the surface area of 2 itself to self-purification capacity to alleviate pollution, the status quo is 9.16 km , and the average water this pollution of the river is generally effective, but for depth is only 1.75 m. According to the characteristics the polluted lake waters it’s not feasible. So how do of Cihu Lake above, this study uses a 2D hydrody- we do to control water pollution? The usual methods namic mass orthogonal body fitted curvilinear coordi- are the rain sewage interception, point sources, and nates transport mathematical model. The characteris- water diversion metabolism. Cihu Lake in Hubei tics, the mathematical model results of complete in- Province used water diversion metabolic water im- formation, conducive to adjusting scheme comparison, provement method, the water body metabolism and save the research cycle. It is convenient for long-term the most economic water diversion path. storage, and the economical efficiency and accuracy This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Article available at http://www.matec-conferences.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20152204013 MATEC Web of Conferences Figure 1. Qingshan Lake velocity distribution (scheme one)scheme one Figure 2. Hong Lake velocity distribution (scheme one)scheme one can meet the needs of engineering, which has been 11 widely used in mature technology, suitable for the study. CHu CHv 0 (2) The water power part control equation model includes tCC CC continuity equation and momentum equation of hori- Where, is the equation of continuity; is the zontal direction. The equation of continuity is shown two orthogonal curvilinear coordinates in orthogonal below: curvilinear coordinate; is the water level; and h is the depth of the water; and H is the whole water depth. 04013-p.2 ICETA 2015 3 SCHEME ONE WATER DIVERSION ROUTE erage metabolic rate is 25.8% The North lake flow is much larger than the South Lake, and the metabolic 3.1 Scheme one: Qingshan Lake water metabolism in rate is also higher than the South lake. Cihu Lake av- the basic situation. erage metabolic rate is shown in the table 1. Table 1. Cihu Lake average metabolic rate (%) First of all, in Scheme one, divert 21 m3/s of water from Yangtze River to Qingshan Lake. Simultaneous- Scheme Time The Lake District ly, respectively divert 8 m3/s and 13 m3/s (total 21 (day) Cihu Lake South North m3/s) from Qingshan Lake to the North Cihu Lake and Cihu Cihu Qinggang Lake. Lake Lake The order of water metabolism is consistent to flow Scheme 3 26.6 25.1 27.6 direction, promoting from the inflow to outflow, dif- 7 51.0 38.5 60.4 fusing and mixing with original water simultaneously, 1 10 62.6 46.2 74.9 which lead to the dilution of the tracer concentra- 20 81.7 65.9 93.6 tion. Owing to the small volume of Qingshang Lake, 45 85 76.0 96.0 the water metabolic is faster, more comprehensive 90 90 86.0 98.0 without obvious stagnant pool in this large flow scheme, and can be completed after 24h. 4 SCHEME TWO WATER DIVERSION ROUTE 3.2 Basic situation of scheme one Qinggang Lake metabolism. 4.1 Scheme two Qingshan Lake water metabolism in the basic situation. In scheme one, the income flow from Qingshan Lake for Qinggang Lake is 13m3/s, and it’s the same out- flow rate to Cihu Lakeˈ metabolizing itself at the Divert 8m3/s of Yangtze River through the Laohutou same time. Qingshan Lake originates from the central barrier gate station to Qinggang Lake; respectively of Qinggang east coast, flowing out to the southwest Divert 2m3/s of Qinggang lake through Panlongshan and afflux into the Cihu Lake. Located at the south- Tunnel to Qingshan Lake , 4 m3/s through Wang Jia west water area, Qinggang lake forms a large recircu- Qiao ecological port channel to the North Cihu Lake , lation zone in the Northeast lake area, whose main- 2 m3/s through the South Lake Ecological Port Chan- stream is controlled by the location of I/O flow. The nel to South Lake , finally, it diverts 8 m3/s of Cihu process of metabolism is well-distributed without Lake through Yangsheng barrier gate station to the obvious stagnant pool. Although backflow under a Yangtze river. low rate in large field still exists in the Northeast of In scheme two, Qingshan Lake diverts 2 m3/s water the lake area, the speed of metabolism is basically to Qinggang Lake, and diverts equivalent water coherent to the mainstream because the water area is through Qingshan Lake into the Yangtze river. Qing- shallow and the volume is small. At the beginning of gang lake water comes from the department, and the diversion process, the water of Qinggang Lake is entrance velocity is about 0.3m/s. Lake water metabo- originated from QingShan lake. As a result, its metab- lism is also well flow to the successive direction, and olism period is longer than QingShan lake’s, which is though velocity of recirculation, the region is very near 3~4 days. small, but as a result of the mainstream, zone flow velocity of the absolute numerical value is limited, so 3.3 Basic situation of scheme one Cihu Lake water the child lake can obtain complete metabolism, with- metabolism. out sluggish water existing. Because the flow is rela- tively small, and water diversion is the acceptance of In scheme one, the Cihu Lake is the final node water early Qinggang Lake original water, under this diversion line; it is also the main object of water envi- scheme, Qingshan Lake water body metabolic cycle is ronment improvement project. Cihu Lake has three longer than scheme one, after 15 days later, the lake water inlets.
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