Abstract
Most wastewaters contain different acidic species, such as sulfuric and hydrochloric acids. Poorly known composition and concentration are central features of wastewaters. In this work, the pH control (in most cases, neutralization) of acidic wastewaters was addressed In order to implement a feedback control, the process was modeled via the dynamics of fictitious polyprotic acidic and buffering species whose parameters can be estimated on-line. The robustness of the resulting control was tested with numerical simulations.
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Galán-Domingo, O., Alvarez-Ramírez, J., Alvarez-Calderón, J. (1994). A Strategy for the pH Control in Acidic Wastewaters. In: Galindo, E., Ramírez, O.T. (eds) Advances in Bioprocess Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0641-4_42
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