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Khalid El Ghazouli1, Jamal El Khatabi2, Aziz Soulhi3
1Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement, Univ. Lille, IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Artois, Yncrea Hauts-de-France, ULR, 4515 - LGCgE, Lille F-59000, France E-mail: elghazouli.khalid@gmail.com; Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et Management Industriel, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Abstract:
Urbanization and an increase in precipitation intensities due to climate change, in addition to limited urban drainage systems (UDS) capacity, are the main causes of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) that cause serious water pollution problems in many cities around the world. Model predictive control (MPC) systems offer a new approach to mitigate the impact of CSOs by generating optimal temporally and spatially varied dynamic control strategies of sewer system actuators. This paper presents a novel MPC based on neural networks for predicting flows, a stormwater management model (SWMM) for flow conveyance, and a genetic algorithm for optimizing the operation of sewer systems and defining the best control strategies. The proposed model was tested on the sewer system of the city of Casablanca in Morocco. The results have shown the efficiency of the developed MPC to reduce CSOs while considering short optimization time thanks to parallel computing.
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