เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	แบบจำลองตะกอนเร่ง	การออกแบบระบบบำบัดน้ำเสีย
สาขาวิชา	วิศวกรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม	วิศวกรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1976	1900
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Marais and Ekama	Civil and sanitary engineers
ประเภท	mathematical simulation pipeline	integrated design and optimization pipeline
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Henze, M., Grady, C. P. L., Gujer, W., Marais, G. V. R., & Matsuo, T. (1987). Activated Sludge Model No. 1. IAWQ, Scientific and Technical Report No. 1.	Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (2013). Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0073401188
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	ASM, conventional activated sludge, suspended growth treatment	WWTP design, sewage treatment, water reclamation, municipal treatment
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	3
สรุป	The Activated Sludge Model (ASM) is a standardized mathematical framework for simulating biological wastewater treatment processes, developed by the International Association on Water Quality (IAWQ) beginning in 1987. It represents the transport, transformation, and fate of organic matter and nutrients in suspended-growth treatment systems. ASM is widely used to design, optimize, and predict the performance of wastewater treatment plants under varying influent and operational conditions.	Wastewater treatment design is the comprehensive planning and engineering of municipal and industrial treatment plants to remove contaminants (organic matter, nutrients, pathogens, trace organics) from domestic and industrial wastewater. Modern treatment plants integrate preliminary screening, primary settlement, secondary biological treatment (activated sludge, trickling filters, lagoons), advanced treatment (membrane filtration, oxidation, absorption), sludge processing, and biosolids management. The design balances regulatory compliance, treatment performance, energy consumption, land use, and capital and operational cost.