15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESSES
Eveline I.P. Volcke, Sylvie Gillot and Peter A. Vanrolleghem
BIOMATH, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

This paper deals with the simulation Benchmark multi-criteria evaluation of the performance of control strategies for biological wastewater treatment plants. In particular, the usefulness of more compact multi-criteria measures is discussed. For an illustrative selection of control strategies, an economic index weighing operating costs appears more powerful than a grey-scale presentation approach. The use of a robustness index, indicating the transferability of control strategies to situations different than the ones defined in the Benchmark protocol, is also evaluated.
Keywords: Bio control; Criterion functions; Economics; Sensitivity analysis; Waste treatment; Weighting functions
Session slot T-Tu-E13: Benchmarking of control strategies in wastewater bioprocesses/Area code 7d : Control of Biotechnological Processes