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We studied nitrate control strategies in an activated sludge wastewater treatment process (WWTP) based on the activated sludge model. Two control strategies, back propagation for proportional-integral-derivative (BP-PID) and adaptive-network based fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS), are applied in the WWTP. The simulation results show that the simple local constant setpoint control has poor control effects on the nitrate concentration control. However, the ANFIS (4*1) controller, which considers not only the local constant setpoint control of the nitrate concentration, but also three important indices in the effluent—ammonia concentration, total suspended sludge concentration and total nitrogen concentration—demonstrates good control performance. The results also prove that ANFIS (4*1) controller has better control performance than that of the controllers PI, BP-PID and ANFIS (2*1), and that the ANFIS (4*1) controller is effective in improving the effluent quality and maintaining the stability of the effluent quality.
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Shen, W., Tao, E., Chen, X. et al. Nitrate control strategies in an activated sludge wastewater treatment process. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 31, 386–392 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-013-0237-y
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