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Benchmark simulation model no 2: general protocol and exploratory case studies

Author

  • Ulf Jeppsson
  • I Nopens
  • J Alex
  • J Copp
  • K V Gernaey
  • Christian Rosén
  • J-P Steyer
  • P A Vanrolleghem
  • M-N Pons

Summary, in English

Over a decade ago, the concept of objectively evaluating the performance of control strategies by simulating them using a standard model implementation was introduced for activated sludge wastewater treatment plants. The resulting Benchmark Simulation Model No 1 (BSM1) has been the basis for a significant new development that is reported on here: Rather than only evaluating control strategies at the level of the activated sludge unit (bioreactors and secondary clarifier) the new BSM2 now allows the evaluation of control strategies at the level of the whole plant, including primary clarifier and sludge treatment with anaerobic sludge digestion.



In this contribution, the decisions that have been made over the past three years regarding the models used within the BSM2 are presented and argued, with particular emphasis on the ADM1 description of the digester, the interfaces between activated sludge and digester models, the included temperature dependencies and the reject water storage. BSM2-implementations are now available in a wide range of simulation platforms and a ring test has verified their proper implementation, consistent with the BSM2 definition. This guarantees that users can focus on the control strategy evaluation rather than on modelling issues. Finally, for illustration, twelve simple operational strategies have been implemented in BSM2 and their performance evaluated. Results show that it is an interesting control engineering challenge to further improve the performance of the BSM2 plant (which is the whole idea behind benchmarking) and that integrated control (i.e. acting at different places in the whole plant) is certainly worthwhile to achieve overall improvement.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

67-78

Publication/Series

Water Science and Technology

Volume

56

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IWA Publishing

Topic

  • Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • whole plant modelling
  • wastewater treatment
  • simulation
  • evaluation criteria
  • control
  • Benchmarking
  • BSM2

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0273-1223