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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 125, 2017
21st International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC 2017)
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| Article Number | 04008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Computers | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712504008 | |
| Published online | 04 October 2017 | |
Automatic Regulation of Wastewater Discharge
Automatic Control Dept, Technical University of Catalonia, UPC, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
* Corresponding author: antoni.grau@upc.edu
Wastewater plants, mainly with secondary treatments, discharge polluted water to environment that cannot be used in any human activity. When those dumps are in the sea it is expected that most of the biological pollutants die or almost disappear before water reaches human range. This natural withdrawal of bacteria, viruses and other pathogens is due to some conditions such as the salt water of the sea and the sun effect, and the dumps areas are calculated taking into account these conditions. However, under certain meteorological phenomena water arrives to the coast without the full disappearance of pollutant elements. In Mediterranean Sea there are some periods of adverse climatic conditions that pollute the coast near the wastewater dumping. In this paper, authors present an automatic control that prevents such pollution episodes using two mathematical models, one for the pollutant transportation and the other for the pollutant removal in wastewater spills.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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