EPSAC for wastewater treatment process (BSM1)

Predictive control is one of the most spread advanced control algorithms in industrial application field. Extended Prediction Self-Adaptive Control (EPSAC) is a part of this family of algorithms and is suitable for wastewater treatment plants control. The main goal of those industrial processes is to fulfil effluent water quality legal provisions with minimal energy consumption. In order to achieve this goal EPSAC control methodology has been applied to the wastewater treatment process. Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1 (BSM1) has been used to simulate the process dynamics. Two types of control strategies were implemented and tested: predictive control without taking into account measured disturbances and predictive control with feedforward. Feedforward control with two measured disturbances (the influent flow rate and ammonium concentration) has been tested.