Lessons learnt from 15 years of ICA (instrumentation, control and automation) in anaerobic digesters.
Event details
| Date | 19.03.2010 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. J.-P. Steyer, Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, INRA Narbonne, France. |
| Location |
MEC2405
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| 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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