The GWPP-K2P Treatment Plant Sketcher Tool predicts the effectiveness of a wastewater or fecal sludge treatment system at removing and reducing pathogens (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminths). Go to www.waterpathogens.org/tools to try it out!
The tool allows you to create a custom “sketch” of a treatment system, specifying how it is configured, designed, and operated. Then, using this information as well as models based on data from scientific literature, the tool estimates the proportion of pathogens reduced by the system and lets you visualize what proportion of the pathogens end up in the liquid effluent vs. the sludge/biosolids. You can add different treatment unit processes, change the way they are configured, and change their design and operational parameters to understand what impacts these changes have on pathogen reduction. It can help you design a new wastewater or fecal sludge treatment plant (WWTP) or plan for upgrades to a treatment plant. After sketching the system and its configuration, you can estimate the removal efficiency of pathogens (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminths) as well as the fraction of pathogens emitted from the treatment plant in the treated effluent vs. the sludge/biosolids. The predictions are made using data from the scientific literature that was collected via the Global Water Pathogen Project ([ Ссылка ]).
