Data to intelligence: The role of data-driven models in wastewater treatment

M Bahramian, RK Dereli, W Zhao, M Giberti… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing energy efficiency in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is becoming more
important. An emerging approach to addressing this issue is to exploit development in data …

[HTML][HTML] A Review of AI-Driven Control Strategies in the Activated Sludge Process with Emphasis on Aeration Control

C Monday, MS Zaghloul, D Krishnamurthy, G Achari - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent concern over energy use in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has spurred
research on enhancing efficiency and identifying energy-saving technologies. Treating one …

Cooperative fuzzy-neural control for wastewater treatment process

H Han, H Liu, J Li, J Qiao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wastewater treatment process, including multiple biochemical reactions, is a complex
industrial process with strong nonlinearity and time-varying dynamics. It is a challenge to …

Dynamic optimization of a wastewater treatment process for sustainable operation using multi-objective genetic algorithm and non-dominated sorting cuckoo search …

KG Aparna, R Swarnalatha - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) face challenges due to nonlinearity and influent
oscillations. An efficient optimal control system is necessary to improve effluent water quality …

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 …

Application of neural networks for optimal-setpoint design and MPC control in biological wastewater treatment

M Sadeghassadi, CJB Macnab, B Gopaluni… - Computers & Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper addresses both the design of an optimal variable setpoint and a setpoint-tracking
control loop for the dissolved oxygen concentration in a biological wastewater treatment …

Optimal control of wastewater treatment plants using economic-oriented model predictive dynamic strategies

S Revollar, P Vega, R Vilanova, M Francisco - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses the implementation of economic-oriented model predictive controllers
for the dynamic real-time optimization of the operation of wastewater treatment plants …

Advanced decision control system for effluent violations removal in wastewater treatment plants

I Santín, C Pedret, R Vilanova, M Meneses - Control Engineering Practice, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents the application of control strategies for wastewater treatment plants with
the goal of effluent limits violations removal as well as achieving a simultaneous …

Fuzzy logic for plant-wide control of biological wastewater treatment process including greenhouse gas emissions

I Santín, M Barbu, C Pedret, R Vilanova - ISA transactions, 2018 - Elsevier
The application of control strategies is increasingly used in wastewater treatment plants with
the aim of improving effluent quality and reducing operating costs. Due to concerns about …

Hierarchical nonlinear model predictive control with multi-time-scale for wastewater treatment process

HG Han, SJ Fu, HY Sun, JF Qiao - Journal of Process Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Different time scales are inevitable for the controlled variables of wastewater treatment
process (WWTP), which may degrade the operation performance or even destroy the …