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Increasing wastewater treatment plant capacity by cellulose recovery with a rota
Elena Torfs received her Master degree Bioscience Engineering: Environmental Technology at Ghent university in 2009 after which she joined the research unit BIOMATH at Ghent university as a teaching assistant. During her time at BIOMATH she combined teaching responsibilities for several courses related to modelling and control of biosystems with her PhD research on improved models for secondary settling tanks in wastewater treatment plants.
Elena works on the pilEAUte project which aims to optimize the operation and control of wastewater treatment plants by detailed monitoring and modelling of a full-functioning pilot treatment plant. The primary objective is to find favorable operational and control schemes to limit both the operational costs and the environmental impact of wastewater treatment plants.
Recent publications :
- Plana, Q., Alferes, J., Fuks, K., Kraft, T., Maruéjouls, T., Torfs, E. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2019) Towards a water quality database for raw and validated data with emphasis on structured metadata. Water Qual. Res. J., 54, 1-9.
- Regmi, P., Stewart, H., Amerlinck, Y., Arnell, M., GarcÃa, J., Johnson, B., Maere, T., Miletic, I., Miller, M., Rieger, L., Samstag, R., Santoro, D., Schraa, O., Snowling, S., Takács, I., Torfs, E., Van Loosdrecht, M., Vanrolleghem, P. A., Villez, K., Volcke, E., Weijers, S., Grau, P., Jimenez, J. and Rosso, D. (2019) The future of WWRF modelling - Outlook and challenges. Wat. Sci. Tech., 79, 3-14.
- Gupta, M., Santoro, D., Torfs, E., Doucet, J., Vanrolleghem, P. A. and Nakhla, G. (2018) Experimental assessment and validation of quantification methods for cellulose content in municipal wastewater and sludge. Environ. Sci. Poll. Res. , 25, 16743-16753.
- Baalbaki, Z., Torfs, E., Maere, T., Yargeau, V. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2017) Dynamic modelling of solids in a full-scale activated sludge plant preceded by CEPT as a preliminary step for micropollutant removal modelling. Bioprocess Biosyst. Eng.,40, 499-510.
- Baalbaki, Z., Torfs, E., Yargeau, V. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2017) Predicting the fate of micropollutants during wastewater treatment: Calibration and sensitivity analysis. Sci. Total Environ. , 601-602, 874-885.
- Bürger, R., Diehl, S., Carmen MartÃa, M., Mulet, P., Nopens, I., Torfs, E. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2017) Numerical solution of a multi-class model for batch settling in water resource recovery facilities. Appl. Math. Modelling , 49, 415-436.
- Torfs, E., MartÃ, M., Locatelli, F., Balemans, S., Bürger, R., Diehl, S., Laurent, J., Vanrolleghem, P. A., François, P. and Nopens, I. (2017) Concentration-driven models revisited: Towards a unified framework to model settling tanks in water resource recovery facilities. Wat Sci. Tech., 75(3), 539-551.
- Bürger, R., Careaga, J., Diehl, S., MejÃas, C., Nopens, I., Torfs, E. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2016) Simulations of reactive settling of activated sludge with a reduced biokinetic model. Computers Chem. Eng., 92, 216-229.
- Kirim, G., Torfs, E. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2019) A 1-D reactive Bürger-Diehl settler model for SST denitrification considering clarifier geometry. In: Proceedings 10th International IWA Symposium on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment (WATERMATEX2019). Copenhagen, Denmark, September 1-4 2019.
- Kirim, G., Torfs, E. and Vanrolleghem, P. A. (2019) Activating secondary settling tank for improved nitrogen removal. In: Proceedings IWA International Young Water Professionals Conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 23-27 2019.
Peter Vanrolleghem - Department of civil engineering and water engineering - Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot - 1065, Médecine avenue, Office 2974
Québec (Québec) - Canada - G1V 0A6 - Telephone : +1-418-656-5085 Email : peter.vanrolleghem@gci.ulaval.ca
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