Lessons learnt from 15 years of ICA (instrumentation, control and automation) in anaerobic digesters.

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Date 19.03.2010
Hour 10:15
Speaker Prof. J.-P. Steyer, Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, INRA Narbonne, France.
Location
MEC2405
Category Conferences - Seminars
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are highly efficient wastewater treatment processes with inherent energy production. Despite these advantages, many industrial companies are still reluctant to use them because of their tendency to become instable when operating conditions change. There is therefore great potential for application of instrumentation, control and automation (ICA) in the field of anaerobic digestion. This seminar will discuss the requirements (in terms of on-line sensors needed, modeling efforts and mathematical complexity) but also the advantages and drawbacks of different control strategies that have been applied to AD high- rate processes over the last 15 years.

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  • General public
  • Free

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