An efficient approach to automate the manual trial and error calibration of activated sludge models

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 516-528

  Sin, Gürkan ^a,b   De Pauw, Dirk J W ^a   Weijers, Stefan ^c   Vanrolleghem, Peter A ^a,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Waterschap de Dommel ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activated sludge model (ASM); ASM2d; Calibration; Monte Carlo; Validation; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOACTIVITY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NITRATES; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

(001) PARAMETER; (ALKYL) AMMONIUM; ACTIVATED SLUDGE MODELS; ACTIVATED SLUDGES; ANALYSIS TOOLS; CALIBRATED MODELS; DATA COLLECTED; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR (MAE); MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MONTE CARLO (MC); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); NETHERLANDS; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETER VALUES; ROOT MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); SENSOR DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (IGC: E4/K7); SUBSET SELECTION; TRIAL AND ERROR; TRIAL AND ERROR CALIBRATION;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; OXYGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSOR; SIMULATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEWAGE; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEWAGE;

EID: 44049096870     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.21769     Document Type: Article

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