Impact of inlet and outlet configurations on the mixing behavior in water storage tanks

The impact of water quality caused by storage reservoirs is usually negative. This deterioration of water quality, in most cases, is due to a mixture of low quality water, which is strongly influenced by the inlet and outlet of the reservoirs. In order to evaluate this impact, four reservoir configurations were tested (by varying the position of the inlet and/or outlet) by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The mean concentration inside the reservoirs demonstrated that the best configuration among those tested was the arrangement that presents the input at the top and the output at the bottom.

computational fluid dynamics; water quality; water storage tank