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V Alcaraz-González1, J Harmand, A Rapaport
1Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, INRA-LBE, Narbonne, France.
Abstract:
This paper presents the practical implementation of a new robust interval observer on a 1 m3 continuous fixed bed anaerobic reactor used for the treatment of industrial wine distillery wastewater. This interval observer is able to generate guaranteed intervals for the unmeasured variables (i.e. acidogenic and methanogenic bacteria, alkalinity and chemical oxygen demand) from few on-line measurements (i.e. input liquid flow rate, CO2 gaseous flow rate, volatile fatty acids and total inorganic carbon). The main advantage of this approach is its independance with respect to disturbances and uncertainty in the initial conditions, in the kinetics and, last but not least, in the process inputs.
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