title: Statistical monitoring and dynamic simulation of a wastewater treatment plant: A combined approach to achieve model predictive control.
abstract: The on-line monitoring of Chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total phosphorus (TP) restrains wastewater treatment plants to achieve better control of aeration and chemical dosing. In this study, we applied principal components analysis (PCA) to find out significant variables for COD and TP prediction. Multiple regression method applied the variables suggested by PCA to predict influent COD and TP. Moreover, a model of full-scale wastewater treatment plant with moving bed bioreactor (MBBR) and ballasted separation process was developed to simulate the performance of wastewater treatment. The predicted COD and TP data by multiple regression served as model input for dynamic simulation. Besides, the wastewater characteristic of the wastewater treatment plant and MBBR model parameters were given for model calibration. As a result, R2of predicted COD and TP versus measured data are 81.6% and 77.2%, respectively. The model output in terms of sludge production and effluent COD based on predicted input data fitted measured data well, which provides possibility to enabled model predictive control of aeration and coagulant dosing in practice. This study provide a feasible and economical approach to overcome monitoring and modelling restrictions that limits model predictive control of wastewater treatment plant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003-IMT, 1432 Aas, Norway. Electronic address: xiaodong.wang@nmbu.no.
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003-IMT, 1432 Aas, Norway.
authors.forename: Harsha
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ratnaweera
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003-IMT, 1432 Aas, Norway.
authors.forename: Johan Abdullah
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Holm
authors.affiliation: Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Drammen Municipality, Engene 1, 3008 Drammen, Norway.
authors.forename: Vibeke
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Olsbu
mesh_terms: D057919:Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis; D019149:Bioreactors; D012722:Sewage; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid; D062065:Wastewater
chemical_list: D012722:Sewage; D062065:Wastewater
keywords: Control; Dynamic simulation; MBBR; Multiple regression; Principal component analysis; Wastewater treatment