Control technologies of wastewater treatment plants: the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future directions

M Faisal, KM Muttaqi, D Sutanto, AQ Al-Shetwi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing pieces of literature on previous studies advocate the research focus by various
researchers to reach the benchmark of energy efficiency of Wastewater Treatment Plants …

Advances in control technologies for wastewater treatment processes: status, challenges, and perspectives

A Iratni, NB Chang - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a thorough review of control technologies that have been applied to
wastewater treatment processes in the environmental engineering regime in the past four …

Data-driven iterative adaptive critic control toward an urban wastewater treatment plant

D Wang, M Ha, J Qiao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wastewater treatment is an important avenue of resources cyclic utilization when coping
with the modern urban diseases. However, there always exist obvious nonlinearities and …

ENERWATER–A standard method for assessing and improving the energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants

S Longo, M Mauricio-Iglesias, A Soares, P Campo… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper describes the first methodology specifically tailored to estimate energy efficiency
at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Inspired by the cycle of continuous improvement …

Event-triggered PID control for wastewater treatment plants

S Du, Q Yan, J Qiao - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the dissolved oxygen control problem in the wastewater
treatment plants (WWTPs) based on a dynamic event-triggered PID control strategy (D …

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 …

An effective integrated control with intelligent optimization for wastewater treatment process

F Li, Z Su, G Wang - Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment process (WWTPs) is an enormous and complex system, it involves
multi-disciplines and multi-fields, which is a greatly challenge for industrial Information …

Assessing the impact of EKF as the arrival cost in the moving horizon estimation under nonlinear model predictive control

M Valipour, LA Ricardez-Sandoval - Industrial & Engineering …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we investigate the performance of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC)
and moving horizon estimation (MHE) in a feedback control system subject to different …

Dynamic behaviour of a conveyor belt considering non-uniform bulk material distribution for speed control

F Zeng, C Yan, Q Wu, T Wang - Applied sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
For the conveyor belt, variable material flow influences the energy efficiency of the speed
control technology significantly. The fluctuation of material flow on the conveyor belt will lead …

Intelligent optimal control system with flexible objective functions and its applications in wastewater treatment process

H Han, L Zhang, HX Liu, C Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal control system has been considered as a valuable technique to enhance the
reliability and security of wastewater treatment process (WWTP). However, due to the …