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During the last decade, the importance of integrated and plant-wide control has been emphasized by the research community and the wastewater industry is now starting to realize the benefits of such an approach. Biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered complex nonlinear systems and its control is very challenging, due to the complexity of the biological and biochemical processes that take place in the plant and the strong fluctuations of the influent flow rate. In addition, there are effluent requirements for instance the one defined by the European Union (European Directive 91/271 Urban wastewater) with economic penalties, to upgrade existing wastewater treatment plants in order to comply with the effluent standards.
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Santín, I., Pedret, C., Vilanova, R. (2017). Introduction. In: Control and Decision Strategies in Wastewater Treatment Plants for Operation Improvement. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 86. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46367-4_1
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