Fuzzy Network DEA Model for Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants

Domestic wastewater treatment covers the processes that used to treat waters that have been polluted by commercial or anthropogenic activities prior to its discharge into the environment or its re-use. Data Envelopment Analysis was applied to evaluate six urban wastewater treatment plants efficiency in three stages with fuzzy data and discretionary and non- discretionary inputs in Iran. Stream flow, Chemical Oxygen Demand and Total Suspended Solids were considered as input variables. In this paper a fuzzy network Data Envelopment Analysis model is proposed and solved with GAMS software. Results showed that showed that Bandar Torkman has the best performance between these waste water treatment plants and Babol and yasreb waste water treatment plants do not operate well.