Control and Decision Strategies in Wastewater Treatment Plants for Operation Improvement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 86
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Ignacio Santin • Carles Pedret • Ramon Vilanova
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	124
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-46366-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Water supply & treatment > General
LSN:	3-319-46366-7
Barcode:	9783319463667

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