Wastewater treatment is an energy-intensive process pursuing two objectives: pollution abatement and energy conservation. To achieve these goals automatic control must be applied. This paper describes the performance improvement obtained by the coordinated automation of some basic process operations. Starting with the basic dissolved oxygen control, coordinated control actions are then introduced and their performance assessed. After discussing the design alternatives, the performance of the best combination is selected on the basis of energy conservation, provided that the effluent quality meets the environmental standards. It is shown that a combination of properly tuned PID and fuzzy regulators considerably improves the energy efficiency of the process.

A multilevel coordinated control strategy for energy conservation in wastewater treatment plants / Dainotto A.; Barni G.; Giaccherini F.; Magnolfi V.; Marsili Libelli S.; Simonetti I.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2012), pp. 1-6. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2nd IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control - PID 2012 tenutosi a Brescia nel 28-30 March 2012).

A multilevel coordinated control strategy for energy conservation in wastewater treatment plants

GIACCHERINI, FRANCESCA;MARSILI LIBELLI, STEFANO;SIMONETTI, IRENE
2012

Abstract

Wastewater treatment is an energy-intensive process pursuing two objectives: pollution abatement and energy conservation. To achieve these goals automatic control must be applied. This paper describes the performance improvement obtained by the coordinated automation of some basic process operations. Starting with the basic dissolved oxygen control, coordinated control actions are then introduced and their performance assessed. After discussing the design alternatives, the performance of the best combination is selected on the basis of energy conservation, provided that the effluent quality meets the environmental standards. It is shown that a combination of properly tuned PID and fuzzy regulators considerably improves the energy efficiency of the process.
2012
PID '12
2nd IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control - PID 2012
Brescia
28-30 March 2012
Dainotto A.; Barni G.; Giaccherini F.; Magnolfi V.; Marsili Libelli S.; Simonetti I.
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