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(2009 : 2010)New Sustainable Concepts and Processes for Optimization and Upgrading Municipal
New Sustainable Concepts and Processes for Optimization and Upgrading Municipal Wastewater and Sludge Treatment
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Participants :
Due to increasing demands on treatment
efficiency, most of the existing wastewater infrastructure faces needs for
optimization, upgrading or retrofitting. Measuring and control concepts are a
cost-saving and environmentally friendlier alternative to the extension of
reactor volumes and are an excellent solution to adapt the plant to different
loadings and to free already existing but unused capacities. A drawback is that
a controlled plant is often driven to the limits of its capacity and
subsequently sensor- or other equipment failures can cause severe effluent
limit violations if unsuitable control concepts are used. Urgently needed
fault-detection concepts do not exist or are inefficient in daily operation
despite the fact that measurements are the input for control loops and the
basis for cost-effective plant operation. Due to the above there is a strong
need for new tools and new strategies to increase the reliability and
fault-tolerance of control systems in wastewater treatment. In the described
research project the available knowledge and experience from different
disciplines shall be collected and translated into engineering practice. The
work is split into six parts:
A) Definition of "Best available technology" for the required sensors with respect to process control.
B) Fault detection: selection of the most robust algorithms for fault detection.
C) Review of existing and development of innovative control strategies for nutrient removal.
D) Development of fault-tolerant and efficient control systems with fall-back strategies depending on data quality and process behaviour.
E) Assessment of all control strategies in the IWA Control Benchmark and with full-scale data.
F) Implementation of concepts at pilot or full-scale plant.
Publications :
- Lagacé, E., Corominas, L., Vanrolleghem, P. A. and Rieger, L. (2009) Improving design of measuring and control systems by introducing sensor models into dynamic WWTP simulation. Lecture held at Americana 2009. Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 17-19 2009.
Poster without corresponding publication
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Faculty of Science and Engineering - Université Laval
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
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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