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Water and Wastewater Operation: Instrumentation, Monitoring, Control, and Automation

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Glossary

Actuator:

A transducer which reacts to a control signal and performs the desired action

Anaerobic:

Conditions in a biological treatment system characterized by the absence of oxygen in any of its forms

Anoxic :

Nitrate serves as terminal electron acceptor

Closed-loop control :

System where the controlled variable is measured, and the result of the measurement used to manipulate one of the process variables. Also called feedback control

Denitrification :

The conversion of nitrate-nitrogen to gaseous nitrogen through anoxic heterotrophic cell growth

DO :

Dissolved oxygen

Nitrification:

The conversion of ammonia-nitrogen to nitrite and nitrate-nitrogen through autotrophic cell growth

On-line estimation:

Estimation of model parameters during the operation of the system

Open-loop control:

System where information about the controlled variable is not used to manipulate any of the system inputs to compensate for variations in the process variables. Also called sequencing

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Olsson, G. (2019). Water and Wastewater Operation: Instrumentation, Monitoring, Control, and Automation. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_330-3

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