Simulation of wastewater treatment plant by gPROMS

Abstract

The article presents the results of using computers to simulate wastewater treatment plants using gProms language, a very powerful language that is widely applied in the world in the field of training and industrial production process management. The database for simulation is based on measurement data of the Benchmark wastewater treatment plant, presented on the website (www.benchmark). The simulation results have shown quite accurate results, and the model parameters obtained are close to the default set of theoretical parameters proposed to be applied. The simulation here is based on the ASM1 model (Activated Sludge Model no1), which shows that the simulation model is reliable to replace costly measurements to well control the operation of the wastewater treatment plant.

Keywords : Simulation; optimisation; identification; wastewater treatment plant; gProm.