Report on Training Week 2 «Modelling and Control of
the Urban Wastewater System»
SANITAS SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED URBAN WATER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Marie Curie Network for Initial Training Seventh Framework Programme Grant Agreement Nr. 289193 Deliverable reference: D.4.6 Training Weeks Reports SANITAS Training Week 2 -­‐ Lund Modelling and Control of the Urban Wastewater System 22nd -­‐ 26th October, 2012 Coordinator name: Dr. Joaquim Comas i Matas Coordinator institution name: UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA Date of delivery: 30/10/2012 Report on Training Week 2 «Modelling and Control of
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1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this report is to provide a brief overview of the first Training Week organized in the framework of the project SANITAS -­‐ Sustainable and Integrated Urban Water System Management -­‐ financed under the 7th Framework Programme -­‐ Marie Curie Actions. SANITAS is a Europe-­‐wide training platform that aims to provide the best technical and managerial skills to young researchers that will become the next generation of Urban Water System management professionals. The complex and utterly diverse nature of the urban water system management represents a challenge to the management professionals and calls for a decisive change in the training paradigm. The thematic approach of the SANITAS 4 Training Weeks responds to this call and establishes training from a multidisciplinary perspective (see Scheme 1 for an overview). Each Training Week presents a good balance of theoretical and practical information: workshops, hands-­‐on training, tutorials, site visits. Scheme 1. SANITAS Training Weeks 2012
18-22 jun
Training week 1
”Complementary
Skills and Policy”
Exeter
UNEXE & UdG
2012
22-26 oct
Training week 2
”Modelling and
Control of the
UWS”
Lund
Lund & DTU
2013
21-25 oct
Training week 3
”Practical
fieldwork”
Ghent
UGent &
Aquafin
2014
20-24 oct
Training week 4
”Decision making
and Multi-criteria
Analysis”
Tel-Aviv
YRA & ICRA &
UdG
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2. TRAINING WEEK 2 – OVERVIEW 2.1.
Objectives The second Training Week titled “Modelling and Control of the Urban Wastewater System” had the objective to train fellows in the skills of dynamic modelling of the biochemical processes occurring in sewers, WWTPs and river systems, putting special emphasis on standardized models, and the basic control concepts of such systems. World-­‐wide experts in the field of water/wastewater modelling were invited to share experiences in the field of modelling, control, instrumentation and automation of Urban Wastewater Systems. Theoretical teaching was complemented by practical sessions using specialized software (MatLab/Simulink) and site visits (Lynnetten wastewater treatment plant, Copenhagen, Denmark). 2.2.
Organization and results The Training Week was organized by Lund University (LU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and took place in the campus of Lund University (Sweden). The programme was divided into several sections including: 1) intensive course training; 2) hands-­‐on exercises, 3) presentations by the SANITAS partners and the independent panel of experts (IPE), 4) presentations from the fellows; 5) site-­‐visits (see Annex 1, Programme). The first two days were devoted to course training. Basic concepts about dynamic systems, conservation laws, mass balances, wastewater treatment modelling, control and benchmarking were given by Dr Ulf Jeppsson (LU), Dr Krist Gernaey (DTU) and Dr Xavier Flores-­‐Alsina (LU). The second part of the course, by Dr Flores-­‐Alsina and Dr Jeppsson was focused on practical use of mathematical models and application of control. The students could use/train/play around with the MatLab/Simulink implementation of the Benchmark Simulation Model No 1 (BSM1) trying to improve effluent quality and at the same reducing operational cost of a virtual plant widely used in wastewater engineering. 2
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Invited SANITAS partners and IPE members shared experiences with the fellows giving lectures in the field of: plant wide modelling (Dr Peter Vanrolleghem, Laval University, Canada), the water-­‐energy nexus (Dr Gustaf Olsson, Lund University, Sweden), sewer quality modelling (Dr Zighuo Yuan, University of Queensland, Australia) and integrated sewer -­‐ wwtp -­‐ receiving media modelling/control (Dr Lorenzo Benedetti, Waterways, Italy). Besides technically related lectures, additional teaching was provided to the SANITAS fellows within the field of scientific communication by Dr Gemma Revuelta, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. The last part of day three of the Training Week was devoted to site visits. The fellows visited the Lynnetten wastewater treatment plant (Copenhagen, Denmark). Dr Dines Thornberg from Copenhagen Wastewater Innovation gave a presentation about research projects dealing with urban drainage, flow forecasting and control. Furthermore, he gave a tour to the different plant facilities and explained to the fellows the different units of which Lynnetten is comprised, putting special emphasis on the instrumentation (sensors) and control aspects. Thus, the theoretical classes were complemented with some real life engineering application in the field. During the fourth training day, fellows made presentations. Each fellow presented his/her research project in a 15 (presentation) + 5 (discussion, questions) minutes time slot. The different SANITAS partners and other senior researchers gave comments. Finally the training week was finished with a general presentation given by the SANITAS coordinator Dr Joaquim Comas regarding the project’s research focus, selected topics and state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art. 2.3.
Documentation All training week literature, Power Point course presentations and the presentations of the fellows are available on the intranet of the project (www.sanitas-­‐itn.eu/intranet). 2.4.
Deviations The initial program of this Training week (Annex 1) scheduled all the presentations given by the ESR/ER to be completed on Thursday. However, due to the length of both presentations and discussions amongst the young and the senior researchers, they had to be extended until 3
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Friday. The general SANITAS discussion started at 10:30 and it was extended until 12. The management meeting started one hour late and lasted until 3 pm. It is worth noting that the initial feed back from the fellows (both ESR and ER) after the Training Week were very positive and fully supported the thematic approach of the programme, while highlighting the importance of the complementary skills acquired in Lund by Lund University and DTU to their research careers. A formal evaluation of the entire training week is on-­‐going. 3. DISSEMINATION The training week was open to participants outside the SANITAS consortium; therefore its programme was publicized via the SANITAS webpage (http://www.sanitas-­‐itn.eu/forthcoming-­‐
sanitas-­‐2nd-­‐training-­‐week-­‐22-­‐26-­‐october-­‐lund-­‐copenhagen/), via Facebook and via email by all the consortium partners to interested PhD students and researchers. 4. PARTICIPANTS The Training Week was attended by the SANITAS fellows and consortium delegates (see Annex 2, List of participants) as well as by PhD students from both Lund and Girona University. For the next Training Week, partners will increase their efforts to allow the participation of researchers outside the consortium and not only from the host institution.
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Annex 1. Programme of the Training Week TRAINING WEEK NO 2: «MODELLING AND CONTROL OF URBAN WASTEWATER SYSTEMS» AGENDA SUNDAY, 21st OCTOBER Arrival of participants MONDAY, 22nd OCTOBER 09.00 – 09.30 Registration/Coffee 09.30 – 10.00 Welcome: introduction of the Training Week. Dr Ulf Jeppsson and Dr Krist V. Gernaey 10.00 – 12.00 Lecture: Introduction to modelling of dynamic systems; Conservation laws and mass balances; Modelling of bioreactors. LU and DTU 12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH (Ideon restaurant) 13.00 – 15.00 Lecture: The Activated Sludge Model no. 1; The Gujer matrix; Settler modelling. LU and DTU 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 – 17.00 Lecture: Introduction to other models (ASM2d, ASM3, ADM1, etc). LU and DTU 18.00 – ... Short guided sightseeing (walk) in Lund followed by Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Stäket in Lund. TUESDAY, 23rd OCTOBER 08.00 – 10.00 Lecture: Introduction to automatic control. LU and DTU 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 – 12.30 Lecture: Control of wastewater treatment plants. LU and DTU 12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH (Ideon restaurant) 13.30 – 15.30 Lecture: Scientific communication. Science Communication Observatory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break 5
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16.00 – 16.45 Lecture: Scientific communication. Science Communication Observatory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 16.45 – 18.15 Lecture: Introduction and overview of the Benchmark Simulation Platforms. LU Free evening in Lund for ERs/ESRs. WEDNESDAY, 24th OCTOBER 08.00 – 10.00 Hands-­‐on simulations using BSM1. LU 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 – 11.15 Expert’s lecture: Water and Energy – Control Challenges. Prof. Gustaf Olsson (IPE member) 11.15 – 12.00 Expert’s lecture: Plant-­‐wide Modelling and Control. Prof. Peter Vanrolleghem (IPE member) 12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH (Ideon restaurant) 13.00 – 17.00 Bus transport to Denmark and site visit at the Lynetten Wastewater Treatment Plant in Copenhagen* – focus on sensors, actuators, control, monitoring, SCADA etc. Dines E. Thornberg and team 17.30 – ... 1 hour guided tour at the National Museum of Art in Copenhagen followed by joint dinner at restaurant Tivolihallen in Copenhagen and afterwards bus transport back to Lund. THURSDAY, 25th OCTOBER 08.00 – 10.00 Lecture: Introduction to the KALLISTO project – Integrated UWS modelling, simulation and evaluation. Dr Lorenzo Benedetti (Waterways) 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 – 11.15 Practical demonstration with the KALLISTO software. Dr Lorenzo Benedetti (Waterways) 11.15 – 12.00 Expert’s lecture: Sewer System Modelling. Prof. Zhiguo Yuan (IPE member) 12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH (Ideon Guest restaurant) 13.00 – 15.00 Presentations of Individual Research Projects (IRP). All SANITAS researchers (ERs/ESRs) – 20 minutes each (15 min + 5 min discussion). Chair: Dr Quim Comas 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break 6
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15.30 – 17.30 Presentations of Individual Research Projects (IRP). All SANITAS researchers (ERs/ESRs) – 20 minutes each (15 min + 5 min discussion). Chair: Dr Quim Comas 19.00 – ... SANITAS gala dinner at the Old Bishop’s Palace, Lund. FRIDAY, 26th OCTOBER 09.00 – 10.30 General discussion with the Invited Panel of Experts regarding SANITAS’ research focus, selected topics, state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art, etc. Chair: Dr Quim Comas 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break and farewell. Thereafter Training Week no 2 is finished and the rest of the day is free time for ERs/ESRs. 7
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Annex II. List of SANITAS participants Name
AFFILIATION
Seniors
Alexandra Popartan
Quim Comas
Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda
Ingmar Nopens
Ulf Jeppsson
Xavier Flores-Alsina
Krist Gernaey
David Pargament
Eveline Volcke
David Butler
Stefan Kroll
Teresa de la Torre
John Bagnall
Stefan Weijers
Lorenzo Benedetti
Arjen van Nieuwenhuijzen
Gema Revuelta
Oriol Gutierrez
UdG, Spain
UdG, Spain
ICRA, Spain
UGent, Belgium
ULund, Sweden
ULund, Sweden
DTU, Denmark
Yarqon RA, Israel
UGent, Belgium
UNEXE, England
AQUAFIN, Belgium
ACCIONA Water, Spain
Atkins, England
WB Dommel, the Netherlands
Waterways, Italy
Witteveen+Bos, the Netherlands
Pompeu Fabra University
ICRA, Spain
IPN members
Zhiguo Yuan
Gustaf Olsson
Peter Vanrolleghem
UQ, Australia
ULund, Sweden
ULaval, Canada
ESRs
Kim Solon
Ramesh Saagi
Laura Snip
Lara Paulo
Celia Castro
Benjamin Ricken
Michele Stefani
Antonia Hadjimichael
Joana Batista
Fanlin Meng
Usman Rehman
ESR8, ULund, Sweden
ESR7, ULund, Sweden
ESR9, DTU, Denmark
ESR3, WU, the Netherlands
ESR10, UGent, Belgium
ESR5a, ICRA, Spain
ESR2, UdG, Spain
ESR1, UdG, Spain
ESR5b, ICRA, Spain
ESR4, UNEXE, England
ESR6, UGent, Belgium
ERs
Xavier Garcia Acosta
Marina Arnaldos Orts
Bertrand Vallet
ER4, Yarqon, Israel
ER2, ACCIONA Water, Spain
ER3, AQUAFIN, Belgium
Guests
Annick Vanrolleghem
Magda Rodriguez-Roda
Silvia Comas
Canada
Spain
Spain
Stefan Diehl
Karin Jönsson
David Gustavsson
Tobias Hey
Johanna Sörensen
ULund,
ULund,
ULund,
ULund,
ULund,
Ignasi Aymerich
ICRA, Spain
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
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