Global Evaluation of Wastewater Treatment Plants Control Strategies Including CO2 Emissions

This paper analyzes the effect of common control actions on the performance of wastewater treatment plants, performance defined by criteria such as: effluent quality, economical cost and greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time the paper proposes to use a quantitative indicator which incorporates all the mentioned performance criteria allowing a more accurate evaluation of the control actions. This study was performed by numerical simulation using a benchmark model that incorporates a dynamic model of the greenhouse gas emissions in all the units of the wastewater treatment plant. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.