What is WEST?
WEST is a modular dynamic modelling tool for Waste water treatment engineers and other professionals who want to simulate processes in wastewater treatment plants or any places where physical, biological or chemical processes take place in water.
WEST is based on models accepted by the international scientific community as IWA. WEST is developed by Hemmis in collaboration with Ghent University. The users get the best possible product by combining this software with DHI's significant practical and scientific knowledge, which we have gained during the last 20 years by working with advanced waste water treatment in Denmark and abroad.
Main Features in WEST
WEST includes a number of modules and features that enables the user to model and evaluate almost any kind of wastewater treatment plant application that exists. With the main modules in WEST (WEST-S and WEST-C) the user can build and run simulations and at the same time view the result of an event dynamically. WEST offers many features:
- Fast simulation runs with the WEST Simulator (WEST-S)
- Unlimited design options with the WEST Configurator (WEST-C)
- Parameter estimation with the WEST Parameter estimation module (WEST-P)
- Sensitivity analysis of process parameters (WEST-Sensitivity analysis)
- Scenario analysis (WEST-Scenario analysis)
- Application Programming Interface to integrate WEST with third-party applications (WEST-API)
- On-line information exchange for automated real-time operation
- Built-in model library
- Peterson Matrix editor
- MSL language to extend or modify the model library
Modelling WWTP with WEST can provide:
- Process optimization
- Bottleneck identification
- Cost savings caused by optimised design and operation
- Control strategy evaluation
- Scenario/extreme event evaluation
- Upgrade/design modification
- Changes in wastewater load/composition
- Training
- Automation
DHI – Water and Environment can assist operators, design engineers, consultants and students to bridge the gap between science and practice in modern wastewater modelling technology