Balancing Waste Water Treatment Plant Load Using Branch and Bound

Ronald van Nooijen; Alla Kolechkina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40814-5_25

Balancing Waste Water Treatment Plant Load Using Branch and Bound

Ronald van Nooijen^*, Alla Kolechkina

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Abstract

The problem of smoothing dry weather inflow variations for a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) that receives sewage from multiple mixed sewer systems is formulated. A first rough control algorithm that uses branch and bound is presented. The control algorithm uses a form of Model Predictive Control. Trials showed that the algorithm had trouble satisfying two constraints that were initially regarded as ‘soft’ constraints. As a result, a closer look was taken at the feasibility of the problem. A family of simpler problems were derived to do so. These auxiliary problems made it possible to show that for a given subclass feasibility was strongly dependent on the choice of problem parameters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	SpringerOpen
Pages	197-210
Number of pages	14
Volume	276
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-40814-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-40813-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40814-5_25
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Volume	276
ISSN (Print)	2198-4182
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-4190

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