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Tuesday, 8 May 2012 |
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MSc presentation:
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Soft Sensors Development for Model Based Control of Groundwater Treatment Plants
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Speaker:
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Ms Nakul Chokshi
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Supervisor:
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Prof.dr.ir. B. De Schutter, dr.ir. A.J.J. van den Boom
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Location:
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room D
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Time:
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14:00 until 14:45
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Abstract:
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The drinking water in the Netherlands has been aimed to achieve high quality of water along with a low production cost. In-order to produce such high quality of treated water, constant monitoring of the process variables at the end of each treatment step is recommended. These processes are monitored and operated by motivated and skilled operators and process technologists, which leads to an operator dependent, subjective, variable and possibly sub-optimal operation of the treatment plants. Furthermore, the extensive automation of the treatment plants reduces the possible operator attention to the individual process units. The use of mathematical or black-box process models might solve these problems. This thesis thus focusses on the development of soft sensors i.e models that can simulate the rapid sand filter (one of the drinking water processes) process and thus be able to estimate/predict the output variables of interest, such that optimal control schemes could be developed to control the quality of the produced water.
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