Papers by Mohammad Karamouz
Disposal of about 1750 tons of solid wastes per day is the result of a rapid population growth in... more Disposal of about 1750 tons of solid wastes per day is the result of a rapid population growth in the province of Khuzestan in the south west of Iran. Most of these wastes, especially hospital solid wastes which have contributed to the pollution of the environment in the study area, are not properly managed considering environmental standards and regulations. In this paper, the framework of a master plan for managing hospital solid wastes is proposed considering different criteria which are usually used for evaluating the pollution of hospital solid waste loads. The effectiveness of the management schemes is also evaluated. In order to rank the hospitals and determine the share of each hospital in the total hospital solid waste pollution load, a multiple criteria decision making technique, namely analytical hierarchy process (AHP), is used. A set of projects are proposed for solid waste pollution control and reduction in the proposed framework. It is partially applied for hospital solid waste management in the province of Khuzestan, Iran. The results have shown that the hospitals located near the capital city of the province, Ahvaz, produce more than 43% of the total hospital solid waste pollution load of the province. The results have also shown the importance of improving management techniques rather than building new facilities. The proposed methodology is used to formulate a master plan for hospital solid waste management.
Advances in Water Resources, 2003
A dynamic programming (DP) optimization model is developed for long term planning of multiple-res... more A dynamic programming (DP) optimization model is developed for long term planning of multiple-reservoir operations. To overcome the well-known dimensionality problem associated with such a model, a heuristic approach is used to narrow the needed search algorithm within the state space of the DP model. This method can recognize many infeasible transitions from the initial to the final state of
Advances in Water Resources, 2007
Increasing water demands, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable qualit... more Increasing water demands, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality and excessive water pollution due to agricultural and industrial expansions have caused intense social and political predicaments, and conflicting issues among water consumers. The available techniques commonly used in reservoir optimization/operation do not consider interaction, behavior and preferences of water users, reservoir operator and their associated modeling
Management Information Systems (MIS) are efficient tools for analyzing the structural problems in... more Management Information Systems (MIS) are efficient tools for analyzing the structural problems in water resources and environmental systems management. This paper presents a MIS for river water quality data analysis. The MIS includes six modules, namely Data Management, Data Validation, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Water Quality Zoning, Water Quality Simulation, and Non-point Loads Estimation. The management of the data banks, statistical analysis and preparing different reports are the main tasks of the Data Management module. The Data Validation module uses statistical methods such as correlation analyses to verify and validate the input data related to the river water quantity and quality. Ranking pollution sources and determining their shares in river water pollution is done using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) module. The Water Quality Zoning module classifies the river reaches considering the concentration of different water quality variables. This module uses the fuzzy clustering method. In the proposed MIS, a river water quality simulation model is also used for determining the spatial and temporal variation of the water quality constituents in a river system. Finally, the characteristics of the non-point pollution sources are estimated using the Nonpoint Loads Estimation module. The proposed MIS has been used for water quality data analysis in the Karoon-Dez River system in southwestern part of Iran. The results show that the MIS can effectively support decision-makers in managing water quality in this river system.
... The Current State of Estimating Water Supply Demand. by Mohammad Karamouz , Albert Machlin , ... more ... The Current State of Estimating Water Supply Demand. by Mohammad Karamouz , Albert Machlin , and Alvin S. Goodman pp. 316-319 Purchase Information Permissions for Reuse Document type: Conference Proceeding Paper. ...
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