Control and Decision Strategies in Wastewater Treatment Plants for Operation Improvement

• Main Authors: Santín, Ignacio (Author), Pedret, Carles (Author), Vilanova, Ramón (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 86
• Subjects: Engineering.; Water-supply.; Control engineering.; Waste management.; Control.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.

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...

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.