Build a Desalination Multi-Train Chemical Pre-Treatment Dosing and Energy Balancer
Evaluate coagulant and antiscalant consumption across seawater reverse osmosis pre-treatment trains. Compare operational dosing regimes against power consumption to formulate cost-effective treatment schedules.
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Evaluate coagulant and antiscalant consumption across seawater reverse osmosis pre-treatment trains. Compare operational dosing regimes against power consumption to formulate cost-effective treatment schedules.
Water Treatment Process Chemist
Ingest raw seawater intake telemetry including turbidity, temperature, and total dissolved solids.
Model pre-treatment chemical consumption and high-pressure reverse osmosis flux using WaterTAP principles.
Calculate chemical dosage costs alongside hourly grid electrical tariff rates.
Synthesize operational setpoint recommendations for plant chemical dosing controllers.
Multi-train process dashboard displaying intake water quality trends, dosing setpoints, and unit production cost charts.
Utilize WaterTAP RO flowsheet example parameters parameterized with seasonal Arabian Gulf seawater salinity profiles. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
WaterTAP treatment modeling Implements WaterTAP unit model relationships for reverse osmosis pressure drops and pre-treatment chemical consumption scaling.
ray-serve, watertap, numpy. Ray Serve efficiently distributes concurrent parameter evaluation across multiple parallel desalination treatment trains. Local or hosted LLM with strong technical explanation and chemical process parameter formatting.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Parses intake water quality parameters and maps them to membrane fouling indices.
Computes optimal antiscalant dosage (mg/L) using WaterTAP scaling equations.
Determines total operating expense per cubic meter including electrical and chemical costs.
Outputs an operator-ready dosing schedule with high-turbidity alarm flags.
```json [ { "input": { "train_id": "TRAIN-B", "intake_turbidity_ntu": 4.8, "intake_tds_ppm": 42000, "intake_temp_c": 31, "permeate_flow_m3h": 400, "antiscalant_unit_cost_usd_kg": 3.2, "electricity_cost_usd_kwh": 0.08 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_setpoints": { "antiscalant_dose_ppm": 2.4, "coagulant_dose_ppm": 1.1, "feed_pressure_bar": 64.2, "chemical_cost_per_m3_usd": 0.011, "total_unit_cost_usd_m3": 0.385 }, "membrane_scaling_risk": "NOMINAL", "requires_chemist_signoff": true } }, { "input": { "train_id": "TRAIN-C", "intake_turbidity_ntu": 25, "intake_tds_ppm": 42000, "intake_temp_c": 31, "permeate_flow_m3h": 400, "antiscalant_unit_cost_usd_kg": 3.2, "electricity_cost_usd_kwh": 0.08 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_setpoints": {}, "alarm": "HIGH_TURBIDITY_EXCEEDS_DAF_CAPACITY", "membrane_scaling_risk": "CRITICAL", "requires_chemist_signoff": true } } ] ```
Simulation and recommendation only; chemical metering pumps remain governed by hard-coded safety PLCs. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Simulation and recommendation only; chemical metering pumps remain governed by hard-coded safety PLCs. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Parses intake water quality parameters and maps them to membrane fouling indices. Computes optimal antiscalant dosage (mg/L) using WaterTAP scaling equations. Determines total operating expense per cubic meter including electrical and chemical costs. Outputs an operator-ready dosing schedule with high-turbidity alarm flags.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
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How submissions are scored
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Complete workflow
Ingest raw seawater intake telemetry including turbidity, temperature, and total dissolved solids. Model pre-treatment chemical consumption and high-pressure reverse osmosis flux using WaterTAP principles. Calculate chemical dosage costs alongside hourly grid electrical tariff rates. Synthesize operational setpoint recommendations for plant chemical dosing controllers.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Parses intake water quality parameters and maps them to membrane fouling indices. Computes optimal antiscalant dosage (mg/L) using WaterTAP scaling equations. Determines total operating expense per cubic meter including electrical and chemical costs. Outputs an operator-ready dosing schedule with high-turbidity alarm flags.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Multi-train process dashboard displaying intake water quality trends, dosing setpoints, and unit production cost charts.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Simulation and recommendation only; chemical metering pumps remain governed by hard-coded safety PLCs.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest raw seawater intake telemetry including turbidity, temperature, and total dissolved solids.
Model pre-treatment chemical consumption and high-pressure reverse osmosis flux using WaterTAP principles.
Calculate chemical dosage costs alongside hourly grid electrical tariff rates.
Synthesize operational setpoint recommendations for plant chemical dosing controllers.
Reference links and supporting material
Utilize WaterTAP RO flowsheet example parameters parameterized with seasonal Arabian Gulf seawater salinity profiles. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Ingest raw seawater intake telemetry including turbidity, temperature, and total dissolved solids. Model pr...
- Parses intake water quality parameters and maps them to membrane fouling indices. Computes optimal antiscal...
- Multi-train process dashboard displaying intake water quality trends, dosing setpoints, and unit production...
- 2 public reference cases
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- Safe execution · Weight 10
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