With rapid urbanization and infrastructure investment, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Chinese cities are putting increased pressure on energy consumption and exacerbating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A carbon footprint is provided as a tool to quantify the life cycle GHG emissions and identify opportunities to reduce climate change impacts. This study examined three mainstream wastew...

This paper describes the combination of Multivariate Statistical Process Control (MSPC) and Case-Based Reasoning to situation assessment of a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP). The goal of this work is to evaluate the capabilities of these techniques for assessing the actual state of a WWTP. The research was performed in a pilot WWTP operating with a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR). The results...

This paper shows the application of several kinds of artificial intelligence techniques in the development of a control system for a biochemical process. A wastewater treatment process for nitrogen removal in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is presented first; two different approaches to identify the endpoint of the biological reactions are introduced. The paper compares and analyzes the resul...