Estimating costs and benefits of advanced control for wastewater treatment plants - The MAgIC methodology

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 215-223

  Devisscher, Martijn ^a   Clacci, G ^b   Fe L ^b   Benedetti, L ^c   Bixio, D ^a   Thoeye, C ^a   De Gueldre, G ^a   Marsili Libelli, S ^b   Vanrolleghem, P A ^c  

^a Aquafin Belgium   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Cost benefit analysis; Full scale plant control; On line process control; Sensors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

FULL-SCALE PLANT CONTROL; ON-LINE PROCESS CONTROL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; CONTROL SYSTEM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

AUTOMATION; BELGIUM; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646721114     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.126     Document Type: Article

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