Soft-sensing with qualitative trend analysis for wastewater treatment plant control

Abstract Ammonia control in municipal wastewater treatment plants typically requires maintenance-intensive instrumentation. A low maintenance alternative is sought for small- to medium-scale applications. To this end, a pH-based soft-sensor is proposed to detect ammonia peak load events. This soft-sensor is based on a newly developed technique for qualitative trend analysis and is combined with a rule-based controller. The use of qualitative trend analysis makes this soft-sensor tolerant towards sensor drifts and thereby reduces the maintenance effort. The method allows controlling any process in which relative changes in the measured output are informative about the system output.

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