Demo case #3 Intelligent control for wastewater treatment Amsterdam • Netherlands Alex van der Helm Waternet Demo case 3 leader Key challenges Wastewater treatment plant Amsterdam West has a capacity of 1 Million population equivalent and serves the city of Amsterdam. In quite unique research we measure nitrous oxide emissions from the wastewater treatment plant. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas formed during the biological nitrogen removal. With online measurements in the off-gas we have measured these emissions for more than 5 years now. We found that the emission of nitrous oxide is larger than expected and accounts for a substantial part of our climate footprint. In addition, a substantial amount of energy is consumed for the aeration of wastewater. For improving our sustainability, we want to reduce nitrous oxide emissions as well as the energy use. Support from Fiware4Water and digital water After discussions with leading experts in the field, we came to the conclusion that the best option for trying to reduce nitrous oxide emissions in practice is through data driven control strategies based on newly developed Artificial Intelligence models. Therefore one of the seven treatment lanes of wastewater treatment plant Amsterdam West is made available as research lane, where we introduce and test additional sensors to gain more insight in the processes and test smart apps for example for screening of data by real-time anomaly detection and correction and for AI based control. For Back to the list of Demo cases Back to content
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