Pathogen Suppression Model within the GCST / ARC Framework

Key Points

• The central aim is to reinterpret pathogen dynamics within wastewater treatment using stability concepts.
• Applied stability-engineering principles to analyze wastewater treatment processes.
• Integrated Global Complexity Stability Theory and the ARC framework.
• Explored the role of system disruptions on pathogen persistence.
• Pathogenic organisms are identified as unstable modes arising from system imbalance.
• Major disruptions include organic overload, oxygen deficiency, and thermal stagnation.
• The findings suggest a need for equilibrium restoration rather than eradication of pathogens.