Group wastewater treatment plants are necessary for the functioning of every city or even village and are also used in many industrial plants for the treatment or pre-treatment of process wastewater. Regardless of the technology used (aerobic or anaerobic treatment, batch or flow treatment, based on mechanical, biological, and chemical processes), these will be combinations of construction objects (reinforced concrete, steel, mixed) equipped with mechanical devices and connected by pipelines (gravity and pressure).
Designing a wastewater treatment plant starts with the process. Process is a schematic, AutoCAD P&ID enables you to create intelligent process technologies. A well-prepared diagram significantly speeds up and streamlines the design process.
The 3D model can be created in a variety of environments. For each stage of work, we will find perfectly matched software in the Autodesk family. The most important thing here is the possibility of cooperation between other design tools. If we assume that the command center is embedded in AutoCAD Plant 3D, then Autodesk Revit with architecture and structures or Autodesk Inventor with devices must find a platform for data exchange with each other. The Autodesk environment fully supports this process.
Technical documentation is an element for which the potential investor pays money, therefore its quality must be high. We must also have a significant impact on its appearance and configuration options. In the design of wastewater treatment plants, and not only, the basis of operation is projection and isometric documentation. The process of its creation is fully automated, so the correct format settings are very important. Detailing the steel structure or mechanical devices is also very important, Autodesk tools will be up to the task.
Managing the entire project and various project branches in one place? Yes… it is possible with Autodesk Navisworks. It is a program that opens most of the design formats on the market. We can move freely in the model, creating an animation, we can also add appropriate materials for rendering purposes and, most importantly, examine inter-object collisions. If, for example, we have Microsoft Project and the entire design process is properly entered there, the result of our work may be a simulation of the construction process, i.e. a standard 3D model + time.
Below is a list of software that can assist the design process of a wastewater treatment plant