Predictive Adaptive Control of an Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Process

Authors

  • Ioana Nascu Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE), Imperial College, London, U.K.
  • Ioan Nascu Department of Automation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Grigore Vlad ICPE Bistrita, Romania

Keywords:

wastewater treatment, predictive control, adaptive control, parameter estimation

Abstract

This paper presents an application regarding a model based predictive adaptive controller used to improve the effluent quality of a conventionalactivated sludge wastewater treatment process. The adaptive control scheme consists of two modules: a robust parameter estimator and a predictive controller. The controller design is based on the process model obtained by recursive estimation. The performances of the adaptive control algorithm are investigated and compared tothenon-adaptive one. Both the set point tracking and the regulatory performances have been tested. The results show that this control strategy will help overcome the challenge for maintaining the discharged water quality to meet the regulations.

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Published

2016-10-01

How to Cite

[1]
I. Nascu, I. Nascu, and G. Vlad, “Predictive Adaptive Control of an Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Process”, Adv. technol. innov., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 38–40, Oct. 2016.

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): October

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