Overview
- Examines the operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) from the perspective of improving effluent water quality while keeping operational costs within constrained limits
- Includes control operation and decision schemes
- Is based on the use of benchmarking scenarios that yield easily reproducible results that readers can implement for their own solutions
- Offers readers essential guidance on the complex control and decision architectures used to boost performance at wastewater treatment plants
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 86)
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About this book
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 yield easily reproducible results that readers can implement for their own solutions. The final criterion is the effect of the applied control strategy on plant performance – specifically, improving effluent quality, reducing costs and avoiding violations of established effluent limits. The evaluation of the different control strategies is achieved with the help of two Benchmark Simulation Models (BSM1, BSM2).
Given the complexity of the biological and biochemical processes involved and the major fluctuations in the influent flow rate, controlling WWTPs poses a serious challenge. Further, the importance of control goal formulation and control structure design in relation to WWTP process control is widely recognized. Of particular interest are the regulations governing the compliance with effluent criteria. Authorities measure compliance with these criteria on the basis of long or short timeframes, and the legal constraints imposed on effluent pollutant concentrations are among the most essential aspects of control structures for WWTPs. This book explores all these facets in detail.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Control and Decision Strategies in Wastewater Treatment Plants for Operation Improvement
Authors: Ignacio Santín, Carles Pedret, Ramón Vilanova
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46367-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46366-7Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83502-0Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46367-4Published: 14 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 124
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Waste Management/Waste Technology