title: Application of adaptive heuristic criticism control (AHCC) to dye wastewater.
abstract: This paper presents an experimental application of AHCC to study the coagulation process of wastewater treatment in a dye plant. Also this study includes a series of tests in which an AHCC control was used for pH control. The performance results of the AHCC controller are compared with the results obtained by using a conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm. It is useful to compare PID with AHCC to illustrate the extreme range of the nonlinearity of the dye wastewater treatment process. Although the removal of pollutants from wastewater is similar with AHCC and PID, our results show excellent AHCC performance in the region where conventional PID control fails.
authors.affiliation: Ankara University, Engineering Faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering 06100 Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey. zeybek@eng.ankara.edu.tr
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zeybek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Karapinar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alpbaz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hapoglu
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D005427:Flocculation; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007220:Industrial Waste; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D007220:Industrial Waste; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C020748:ferrous sulfate; C029451:ferrous chloride