Planning, testing and commissioning of automation solutions for waste water treatment plants using simulation

Alex, J.; Hübner, Christian; Förster, Leonie

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1084

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“…This, however, does not mean that a model developed in a WRRF's design phase cannot transition into an operational DT as the reactor or facility goes into operation. A recent case study that investigates this transition between design and operation is the work performed by Alex et al (2020), which illustrates how a detailed process model of a plant including its control system and actuators is used for virtual commissioning of the automation system. This process model developed during the planning and design phase of the automation concept can continue its lifecycle as an operational DT once the automation system is connected to the real entity.…”

Section: Digital Twins For Designmentioning

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The transition of WRRF models to digital twin applications

Torfs

Nicolaï

Daneshgar

et al. 2022

Water Science and Technology

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Digital Twins (DTs) are on the rise as innovative, powerful technologies to harness the power of digitalisation in the WRRF sector. The lack of consensus and understanding when it comes to the definition, perceived benefits and technological needs of DTs is hampering their widespread development and application. Transitioning from traditional WRRF modelling practice into DT applications raises a number of important questions: When is a model's predictive power acceptable for a DT? Which modelling frameworks are most suited for DT applications? Which data structures are needed to efficiently feed data to a DT? How do we keep the DT up to date and relevant? Who will be the main users of DTs and how to get them involved? How do DTs push the water sector to evolve? This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art, challenges, good practices, development needs and transformative capacity of DTs for WRRF applications.

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Section: Digital Twins For Designmentioning

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The transition of WRRF models to digital twin applications

Torfs

Nicolaï

Daneshgar

et al. 2022

Water Science and Technology

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Identification of Barriers and Driving Forces for Circular Economy (CE) Implementation in Water and Wastewater Companies

Smol,

Szołdrowska,

Duda

2024

Bus Strat Env

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Water and wastewater management sector is one of the basic areas of implementing a circular economy (CE). Enterprises operating in this sector are mainly wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) managed by municipalities or private companies. They encounter various barriers and facilitators to implement CE, in the area of technology development and management. However, a limited number of works in the available literature focus on nontechnological aspects of implementing CE in WWTPs. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive analysis of challenges (including driving forces and barriers) for WWTPs in the process of implementing CE policy goals. The PESTEL strategic analysis method was used, taking into account the identification of political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors. It was confirmed that there are more incentives than barriers to actively implementing CE model in analyzed enterprises. The most important driving forces include: (i) favorable European CE policy, as recommendations and law regulations in the area of water, raw materials, and energy recovery; (ii) society's pressure on resource protection; (iii) possible revenues from the sale of recovered water, energy or CE‐fertilizers; (iv) financial support for CE solutions. Among defined barriers that could slow down the circular transformation, the most important are: (i) lack of clearly stated regulations regarding water, energy, and raw materials recovery, as well as transparency and regulatory risk; (ii) limited own financial resources of WWTPs operators; (iii) high cost of investments and maintaining recovery/recycling technologies. Those results may be of key importance to practitioners in strategic decision making for the improved application of circularity in the operating process. Because the implementation of CE solutions should have an integrated approach throughout the enterprise, it is recommended to develop circular business models for these companies, that would take into account both the core business (water and wastewater management) as well as possibilities of further CE implementation, such as recovery of water, energy, and raw materials. In the coming years, such solutions could be financially supported by the national and European sources, which may have a positive impact on the acceleration to the CE model.

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Generating interpretable rainfall-runoff models automatically from data

Dantzer,

Kerkez

2024

Advances in Water Resources

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Planning, testing and commissioning of automation solutions for waste water treatment plants using simulation

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

The transition of WRRF models to digital twin applications

The transition of WRRF models to digital twin applications

Identification of Barriers and Driving Forces for Circular Economy (CE) Implementation in Water and Wastewater Companies

Generating interpretable rainfall-runoff models automatically from data

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