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Model reduction through boundary relocation to facilitate real-time control optimisation in the integrated urban
1BIOMATH, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
Abstract:
Real time control is one of the possibilities to minimise the impact of the integrated urban wastewater system (sewer system and treatment plant) on the receiving water quality. Integrated control uses information about the river state to act in the sewer system or in treatment plant. In order to test and tune these integrated controllers, a simplified integrated model is needed. Even with these simplified models, the simulation times may be too long and further model reduction is needed. In this paper, dependency-structure based model reduction is proposed as a technique to further reduce model complexity. Three steps are proposed: relocation of the upstream system boundaries to just upstream of the first control point, relocation of the downstream boundaries to just downstream of the last measurement point, and third, a further model simplification based on an analysis of the sensitivity of the control actions on submodel elimination. The effect of applying the different reduction approaches on the control strategy and on the resulting river water quality is discussed on the basis of a case study of the catchment of Tielt.
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