The AMDTreat Development Team is
currently scoping out a project to further enhance the successful AMDTreat
computer cost modeling program. This enhancement will be labeled
AMDTreat Version 5. The current plan is for AMDTreat V5 to include the following:
Enhancing the flexibility of
the AMDTreat Financial Forecasting tool by including a second method of
calculating Investment Volatility; and
Incorporating the geochemical
modeling capabilities of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS)
PHREEQ computer program into AMDTreat. PHREEQ
is a computer program for speciation, batch-reaction,
one-dimensional transport, and inverse geochemical calculations
and will be used to model field titrations. Currently, AMDTreat
requires costly and time consuming field titrations to
accurately calculate costs associated with treating net alkaline
discharges and discharges with elevated manganese levels. This
proposed enhancement will model the field titrations, thus
eliminating the need to perform field titrations to estimate
treatment costs for these types of discharges. Incorporating
PHREEQ into AMDTreat is a major enhancement and is being encoded
by David Parkhurst of the USGS; the original developer of PHREEQ.
If you have any additional
suggested enhancements that you would like incorporated into
AMDTreat V5 please contact us.
PRIORITY
LEVEL
DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENT
1
H
Enhance the
Financial Forecasting tool in include an additional method
to calculate the Investment Volatility Factor.
1
H
Include the geochemical capabilities of PHREEQ to model
field titrations for alkaline discharges and discharges with
elevated manganese levels.
PRIORITY AND LEVEL KEY
Priority
H
High priority
M
Medium Priority
L
Low priority
Level
V
Very high level of effort and expense required to implement the enhancements.
H
High level of effort and expense required to implement the enhancements.
