Optimization of Urban Wastewater Systems using Model Based Design and Control
Optimization of Urban Wastewater Systems using Model Based Design and Control

Author: Carlos Alberto Velez Quintero

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1000159329

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A considerable amount of scientific evidence has been collected leading to the conclusion that urban wastewater components should be designed as one integrated system, in order to protect the receiving waters cost-effectively. Moreover, there is a need to optimize the design and operation of the sewerage network and wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) considering the dynamic interactions between them and the receiving waters. This book introduces a method called Model Based Design and Control (MoDeCo) for the optimum design and control of urban wastewater components. The book presents a detailed description of the integration of modelling tools for the sewer, the wastewater treatment plants and the rivers. The complex modelling structure used for the integrated model challenge previous applications of integrated modelling approaches presented in scientific literature. The combination of modelling tools and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms demonstrated in this book represent an excellent tool for designers and managers of urban wastewater infrastructure. This book also presents two alternatives to solve the computing demand of the optimization of integrated systems in practical applications: the use of surrogate modelling tools and the use of cloud computer infrastructure for parallel computing.

Optimization of Urban Wastewater Systems using Model Based Design and Control
Optimization of Urban Wastewater Systems using Model Based Design and Control

Author: Carlos Alberto Velez Quintero

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1000116425

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A considerable amount of scientific evidence has been collected leading to the conclusion that urban wastewater components should be designed as one integrated system, in order to protect the receiving waters cost-effectively. Moreover, there is a need to optimize the design and operation of the sewerage network and wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) considering the dynamic interactions between them and the receiving waters. This book introduces a method called Model Based Design and Control (MoDeCo) for the optimum design and control of urban wastewater components. The book presents a detailed description of the integration of modelling tools for the sewer, the wastewater treatment plants and the rivers. The complex modelling structure used for the integrated model challenge previous applications of integrated modelling approaches presented in scientific literature. The combination of modelling tools and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms demonstrated in this book represent an excellent tool for designers and managers of urban wastewater infrastructure. This book also presents two alternatives to solve the computing demand of the optimization of integrated systems in practical applications: the use of surrogate modelling tools and the use of cloud computer infrastructure for parallel computing.

Modelling, Simulation and Control of Urban Wastewater Systems
Modelling, Simulation and Control of Urban Wastewater Systems

Author: Manfred Schütze

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-06-27

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 144710157X

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by Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering. Historically speaking, the development of urban drainage structures was very successful on the basis of pure empiricism. Just think of the impressive structures built by the Romans long before the discipline of hydraulics came into being. The fact is that the Romans did not know much about the theories of hydraulics, which were discovered as late as the mid-1800s. However, with the Renaissance came a new era. Astronomy (Galileos) and basic physics (Newton) started the scientific revolution and in the mid-1800s Navier and Stokes developed the application of Newtons laws to hydrodynamics, and later, St. Venant the first basic physics description of the motion of water in open channels. The combination of basic physical understanding of the phenomena involved in the flow of water in pipes and the experience gained by "trial and error", the engineering approach to urban drainage improved the design and performance of the engineering drainage infrastructure. However, due to the mathematical complications of the basic equations, solutions were available only to quite simple cases of practical significance until the introduction of new principles of calculation made possible by computers and their ability to crunch numbers. Now even intricate hydraulic phenomena can be simulated with a reasonable degree of confidence that the simulations are in agreement with performance in practice, if the models are adequately calibrated with sample performance data.

Advancing Robust Multi-Objective Optimisation Applied to Complex Model-Based Water-Related Problems
Advancing Robust Multi-Objective Optimisation Applied to Complex Model-Based Water-Related Problems

Author: Oscar Osvaldo Marquez Calvo

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-02-07

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1000043142

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The exercise of solving engineering problems that require optimisation procedures can be seriously affected by uncertain variables, resulting in potential underperforming solutions. Although this is a well-known problem, important knowledge gaps are still to be addressed. For example, concepts of robustness largely differ from study to study, robust solutions are generally provided with limited information about their uncertainty, and robust optimisation is difficult to apply as it is a computationally demanding task. The proposed research aims to address the mentioned challenges and focuses on robust optimisation of multiple objectives and multiple sources of probabilistically described uncertainty. This is done by the development of the Robust Optimisation and Probabilistic Analysis of Robustness algorithm (ROPAR), which integrates widely accepted robustness metrics into a single flexible framework. In this thesis, ROPAR is not only tested in benchmark functions, but also in engineering problems related to the water sector, in particular the design of urban drainage and water distribution systems. ROPAR allows for employing practically any existing multi-objective optimisation algorithm as its internal optimisation engine, which enables its applicability to other problems as well. Additionally, ROPAR can be straightforwardly parallelized, allowing for fast availability of results.

Model Predictive Control of Wastewater Systems
Model Predictive Control of Wastewater Systems

Author: Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1849963533

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The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies ..., new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. The water and wastewater industry has undergone many changes in recent years. Of particular importance has been a renewed emphasis on improving resource management with tighter regulatory controls setting new targets on pricing, industry efficiency and loss reduction for both water and wastewater with more stringent environmental discharge conditions for wastewater. Meantime, the demand for water and wastewater services grows as the population increases and wishes for improved living conditions involving, among other items, domestic appliances that use water. Consequently, the installed infrastructure of the industry has to be continuously upgraded and extended, and employed more effectively to accommodate the new demands, both in throughput and in meeting the new regulatory conditions. Investment in fixed infrastructure is capital-intensive and slow to come on-stream. One outcome of these changes and demands is that the industry is examining the potential benefits of, and in many cases using, more advanced control systems.

Model-Based Design of Water Distribution and Sewage Systems
Model-Based Design of Water Distribution and Sewage Systems

Author: Hermann M. Orth

Publisher:

Published: 1986-07-31

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Introduces the application of mathematical optimization techniques to the design of wastewater collection and management and water distribution systems. Briefly covers fundamentals of hydraulic to clarify formulas and design criteria upon which models are based. Covers operations research and engineering economics in detail. Presents examples and case studies to enable engineers to adjust models to the needs of projects. Priority is given to models that are easy to implement and manage under practical design conditions.

Predictive Control of Urban Wastewater Systems
Predictive Control of Urban Wastewater Systems

Author: Marie O'Brien

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Within recent years, technological advances and stricter regulatory requirements have seen the increased use of automation and instrumentation within the wastewater treatment industry. As a result, advanced control strategies are required, to fully exploit the potential of these complex systems in addressing water quality concerns. Model based control strategies can be appropriate within the multivariable constrained wastewater system. In particular, the inherent model based nature of this approach can be valuable in the prediction of the treatment plant effluent quality required over a considered time period, to meet water quality standards. Multivariable linear predictive control is implemented for a benchmark treatment plant model, demonstrating the constraint handling ability of the predictive control structure. The limitations of an effluent-based control strategy in the maintenance of river quality is discussed. A more global approach to wastewater control must be considered in order to compensate against disturbances within the system. Tackling this concern, the incorporation of receiving water quality objectives within the control strategy is proposed. To this end, the application of linear MPC to the control of dissolved oxygen concentrations in the receiving waters under storm conditions is demonstrated. The drawbacks involved in a linear model based approach within a nonlinear urban wastewater system are considered. Several nonlinearities are present: the bioprocesses involved are by definition nonlinear, and are affected by varying wastewater load and characteristics. These can be the result of varying stormwater effects upon the treatment plant or emergency overflows to receiving waters. This therefore motivates the development of nonlinear strategies in the control of the wastewater processes. The control of SISO nonlinear processes within the urban wastewater system, such as dissolved oxygen, is demonstrated via the use of fuzzy gain-scheduled and Wiener model based predictive control. Additionally, the use of existing nonlinear process models in the control of wastewater processes is shown in the application of state dependent model predictive control.

Urban Drainage Modeling
Urban Drainage Modeling

Author: Robert W. Brashear

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13:

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This collection contains 91 papers presented at a specialty symposium on urban drainage modeling at the World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, held in Orlando, Florida, May 20-24, 2001.