Model-Assisted, Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

This chapter includes a brief overview of the several model-assisted, real-time, plant-wide monitoring and control (MA-RT-PW-MC) software tools already commercially available. The implementation of the different MA-RT-PW-MC platforms has faced major challenges since their inception. The traditional consensus in the wastewater industry has been that most processes can be decoupled and successfully controlled with independent control loops making …