Wastewater treatment plant operation: simple control schemes with a holistic perspective

S Revollar, R Vilanova, P Vega, M Francisco… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a control approach for improving the overall efficiency of a wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) is presented. It consists of a cascaded control system that uses a …

Design of feedback control strategies in a plant-wide wastewater treatment plant for simultaneous evaluation of economics, energy usage, and removal of nutrients

AG Sheik, E Tejaswini, MM Seepana, SR Ambati… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous is a recommended practice while
treating wastewater. In the present study, control strategies based on proportional-integral …

Design of intelligent control strategies for full-scale wastewater treatment plants with struvite unit

AG Sheik, ESS Tejaswini, SR Ambati - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, intelligent (fuzzy logic) control strategy is designed for plant-level wastewater
treatment plants (WWTP) with an aim to reduce the operational cost and improve the effluent …

Improving wastewater treatment plant performance based on effluent quality, operational costs, and reliability using control strategies for water and sludge lines

M Rajaei, S Nazif - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2022 - Elsevier
As a result of urbanization and population growth, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are
experiencing increased influent flow rates, pollutant loads, and stricter standards for effluent …

[HTML][HTML] New approach for regulation of the internal recirculation flow rate by fuzzy logic in biological wastewater treatments

I Santín, R Vilanova, C Pedret, M Barbu - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
The internal recirculation plays an important role on the different biological processes of
wastewater treatment plants because it has a great influence on the concentration of …

Data authorization and forecasting by a proactive soft sensing tool–anammox based process

A Nawaz, AS Arora, CM Yun, H Cho… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Precise control of biological wastewater treatment for nitrogen removal is difficult because of
the nonlinearity, time-varying, and time-consuming nature of the process. With due …

Anaerobic digestion process control using a data-driven internal model control method

L Condrachi, R Vilanova, M Meneses, M Barbu - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion processes offer the possibility for wastewater treatment while obtaining
a benefit through the obtained biogas. This paper aims to continue the effort to adopt data …

Model based control of a full-scale biological wastewater treatment plant

ESS Tejaswini, S Panjwani, GUB Babu, AS Rao - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present contribution, different combinations of control strategies based on PI, MPC
and Fuzzy controllers are implemented with a prime concern of improving the quality of the …

Improvement of effluent quality and operational cost reduction of a wastewater treatment plant using intelligent computational hybrid control schemes

JG Ateunkeng, AT Boum, L Bitjoka - Clean Technologies and …, 2024 - Springer
Wastewater management is a major environmental and economic problem in both
industrialized and developing countries. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been …

ANN-based Internal Model Control strategy applied in the WWTP industry

I Pisa, A Morell, JL Vicario… - 2019 24th IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) are industries where highly complex and non-linear
processes are performed to reduce the pollutant concentrations of residual waters. However …