A Comprehensive Virtual Testbed for Modeling Disinfection Byproduct Formation in Water Distribution Networks

Drinking water disinfection by water utilities aims to ensure the safety and high quality of the provided water; however, it can pose a threat to human health due to the formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs). The prediction and modeling of DBPs are challenging tasks due to the complex reactions within water distribution networks (WDN). To address this challenge, we introduce a virtual testbed based on a realistic WDN in Cyprus that utilizes the EPANET and EPANET-MSX engines to model multi-species reactions for the execution of simulation experiments under various conditions regarding the formation and fate of two families of DBPs within WDNs.