Parameter Identification of an Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Process Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Method

Abstract EN

The current paper is entirely devoted to show the applicability of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm as a parameter identification method for a representative model of an Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Process (ASWWTP) with alternating phases.

The model of identification is composed of two linear submodels: one for the aerobic phase and the other for the anoxic phase.

In order to prove the efficiency of the proposed method, its performance is compared with another classical method called Simplex Search Algorithm (SSA) as well as with the experimental data.