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Numerical simulation of alga growth and control in Dalian Bay
Ying Li1, Caisheng Huang2, Jiti Zhou3
1School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China. liying@djtu.edu.cn
Abstract:
WAHMO model was used to simulate the distribution of pollutants in Dalian Bay, China as to predict well as the growth and control of alga. The observed and predicted values of main pollutants showed a good trend at all study locations and the different between them can be ignored. Simulation results illustrated that phosphate was one of limited factors to control algal growth at the location near the sewage outfall, meanwhile, away from the sewage outfall, the synergy of ammonium nitrogen and phosphate was the limited factor.

