Process improvement and energy saving in a full scale wastewater treatment plant: Air supply regulation by a fuzzy logic system

Environmental Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 733-746

  Baroni, P ^a   Bertanza, G ^a   Collivignarelli, C ^a   Zambarda, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b AGSM Verona SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air supply; Energy saving; Fuzzy logic; Process stability; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; EFFLUENTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FUZZY LOGIC; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AIR SUPPLY; AIR SUPPLY CONTROLS; CONVENTIONAL CONTROL; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROCESS STABILITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; FUZZY SETS; GASEOUS EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONTROL SYSTEM; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EFFLUENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EXPERIMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 33746732201     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593332708618689     Document Type: Article

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