Benchmarking of control strategies for wastewater treatment plants / edited by Krist V. Gernaey [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gernaey, Krist V., Editor.

Contributor:

Gernaey, Krist V., editor.

Series:

Scientific and technical report (London, England) ; Number 23.

Scientific and Technical Report ; Number 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water treatment plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

IWA Publishing 2014

London, England : IWA Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wastewater treatment plants are large non-linear systems subject to large perturbations in wastewater flow rate, load and composition. Nevertheless these plants have to be operated continuously, meeting stricter and stricter regulations. Many control strategies have been proposed in the literature for improved and more efficient operation of wastewater treatment plants. Unfortunately, their evaluation and comparison - either practical or based on simulation - is difficult. This is partly due to the variability of the influent, to the complexity of the biological and biochemical phenomena and to the large range of time constants (from a few minutes to several days). The lack of standard evaluation criteria is also a tremendous disadvantage. To really enhance the acceptance of innovative control strategies, such an evaluation needs to be based on a rigorous methodology including a simulation model, plant layout, controllers, sensors, performance criteria and test procedures, i.e. a complete benchmarking protocol. This book is a Scientific and Technical Report produced by the IWA Task Group on Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants. The goal of the Task Group includes developing models and simulation tools that encompass the most typical unit processes within a wastewater treatment system (primary treatment, activated sludge, sludge treatment, etc.), as well as tools that will enable the evaluation of long-term control strategies and monitoring tasks (i.e. automatic detection of sensor and process faults). Work on these extensions has been carried out by the Task Group during the past five years, and the main results are summarized in Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants. Besides a description of the final version of the already well-known Benchmark Simulation Model no. 1 (BSM1), the book includes the Benchmark Simulation Model no. 1 Long-Term (BSM1_LT) - with focus on benchmarking of process monitoring tasks - and the plant-wide Benchmark Simulation Model no. 2 (BSM2).

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Nomenclature

List of technical reports

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 What is Meant by a 'Benchmark Simulation Model'?

1.2 What is the Purpose of the Benchmark Simulation Models?

1.3 Who Should Use the Benchmark Simulation Models?

1.4 How Should the Benchmark Simulation Models be Used?

1.5 Who has been Involved in the Development of the Benchmark Simulation Models?

1.6 How Should this Scientific and Technical Report be Read?

Chapter 2: Benchmark overview

2.1 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1

2.2 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1 Long-Term

2.3 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 2

2.4 The Benchmark Simulation Model Set

Chapter 3: Benchmark plant description

3.1 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1

3.2 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1 Long-Term

3.3 Benchmark Simulation Model No. 2

3.4 Characteristics Summary

Chapter 4: Benchmark models

4.1 Influent Modelling

4.1.1 BSM1 influent

4.1.2 BSM1_LT and BSM2 influent

4.2 Unit Process Models

4.2.1 Activated Sludge Model No. 1 (ASM1)

4.2.2 Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1)

4.2.3 ASM/ADM interfacing

4.2.4 Solids separation models

4.2.5 Reject water storage tank

4.3 Sensors and Actuators

4.3.1 Sensors

4.3.2 Actuators

4.3.3 Faults and failures

4.4 Inhibition and Toxicity

4.4.1 Biological processes

4.4.2 Physical processes

4.4.3 Modelling inhibitory/toxic substances

4.5 Risk Assessment Modelling

4.5.1 Concept

4.5.2 Application to filamentous bulking

4.6 Temperature

Chapter 5: Benchmarking of control strategies

5.1 BSM1 and BSM1_LT Controllers

5.1.1 Default BSM1 control strategy

5.1.2 Other BSM1 control handles

5.1.3 BSM1_LT control strategy

5.2 BSM2 Controllers

5.2.1 Default BSM2 control strategy.

5.2.2 Testing other BSM2 control strategies

Chapter 6: Evaluation criteria

6.1 Effluent and Influent Quality Indices

6.2 Effluent Concentrations

6.2.1 Ninety-five (95) percentiles

6.2.2 Number of violations

6.2.3 Percentage of time plant is in violation

6.3 Operational Cost Index

6.3.1 Aeration energy

6.3.2 Pumping energy

6.3.3 Sludge production for disposal

6.3.4 External carbon

6.3.5 Mixing energy

6.3.6 Methane production

6.3.7 Heating energy

6.4 Controller Assessment

6.4.1 Controlled variable tracking

6.4.2 Actuator performance

6.4.3 Risk-related evaluation criteria

6.5 Monitoring Performance Assessment

6.6 Evaluation Summary

Chapter 7: Simulation procedure

7.1 BSM1

7.2 BSM1_LT

7.3 BSM2

Chapter 8: Ring-testing

8.1 Steady State Verification

8.2 Dynamic Verification

8.3 Findings

Chapter 9: BSM limitations

9.1 BSM as a Toolbox

9.2 Model Structures

9.2.1 Biokinetic models

9.2.2 Aeration

9.2.3 Solid/Liquid separation models

9.2.4 Other models

9.3 Model Parameters

9.4 Evaluation Criteria

9.5 Model Simulation

9.6 Application Extension

9.7 Conclusion

Chapter 10: Conclusions and perspectives

10.1 Lessons Learned: Development of the Benchmark Platforms

10.2 Lessons Learned: Use of the Benchmark Platforms, Verified Process Models and Generic Tools

10.2.1 Portability

10.2.2 Extensions

10.3 Looking Ahead: Future Extensions of the BSM Platforms

10.3.1 Temporal extensions

10.3.2 Spatial extensions

10.3.3 Process extensions

10.3.4 Realism of models used in BSM

10.3.5 Control strategy extensions

10.3.6 Extended evaluation tools

10.4 The 'Benchmarking Spirit'

References

Appendix A: Model parameters

Appendix B: Simulation output

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781780401171

1780401175

OCLC:

897838642

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access