Control and Decision Strategies in Wastewater Treatment Plants for Operation Improvement

This book examines the operation of biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), with a focus on maintaining effluent water quality while keeping operational costs within constrained limits. It includes control operation and decision schemes and is based on the use of benchmarking scenarios that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Santín, Ignacio (Author), Pedret, Carles (Author), Vilanova, Ramón (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 86
Subjects:
Control engineering.
Water.
Hydrology.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Control and Systems Theory.
Waste Management/Waste Technology.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Process modelling and simulation scenarios
  • 3 Control approaches
  • 4 Tracking improvement of the basic lower level loops
  • 5 Variable dissolved oxygen set-points operation
  • 6 Denitrification and nitrification processes improvement for avoiding
  • 7 Effluent predictions for violations risk detection
  • 8 Advanced decision control system
  • 9 Conclusions.

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