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The Benchmark Simulation Modelling Platform – Areas of Recent Development and Extension

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Frontiers in Wastewater Treatment and Modelling (FICWTM 2017)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ((LNCE,volume 4))

Abstract

As the formal work of the IWA Task Group on Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater treatment Plants (WWTPs) has come to an end, it is essential to continue to disseminate the intense research in this field that is still carried out. In 2013 and 2014, all authors of the IWA Scientific and Technical Report on benchmarking came together to provide their insights, highlighting areas where knowledge was still deficient and where new opportunities were emerging, as well as to propose potential avenues for future development and application of the general benchmarking framework and its associated tools. The focus was on the topics of temporal and spatial extensions, process modifications within the WWTP, improved realism of models, control strategy extensions, the potential for new evaluation tools within the existing benchmark system and the need for full-scale validation. Four years later, it is clear that many of these goals have already been accomplished and the toolbox of Benchmark Simulations Models has been greatly extended and enhanced. The focus of this paper is to provide a number of examples of these recent extensions. As always, the different BSM softwares are freely available for the benefit of the global research community.

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Acknowledgements

A large number of excellent researchers and close friends have contributed to the development of the benchmark systems during the last 20 years and the author wishes to express his sincere gratitude to all of them. Special thanks to professor Krist V. Gernaey, Dr Xavier Flores-Alsina and Ms Hannah Feldman at the CAPEC-PROCESS Research Centre, Technical University of Denmark and to Dr Magnus Arnell, Mrs Kimberly Solon and Mr Ramesh Saagi at IEA, Lund University, Sweden, for all their contributions to this paper. The support of the International Water Association (IWA) is gratefully acknowledged.

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Jeppsson, U. (2017). The Benchmark Simulation Modelling Platform – Areas of Recent Development and Extension. In: Mannina, G. (eds) Frontiers in Wastewater Treatment and Modelling. FICWTM 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58421-8_13

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