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Predictive control of flow rates and concentrations in sewage transport and treatment systems

2025· article· en· W4407278886 on OpenAlexafffund
Shuyao Tan, Alain Rapaport, Peter A. Vanrolleghem, Denis Dochain, Elodie Passeport, Joshua A. Taylor

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Process Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicWater Systems and Optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsModel predictive controlSewageEnvironmental scienceFlow (mathematics)Sewage treatmentControl (management)Volumetric flow rateEnvironmental engineeringControl theory (sociology)Computer scienceMechanicsPhysicsArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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We design a predictive flow rate and concentration controller for wastewater transport and treatment networks. It manages flow rates to avoid overflows during times of high flow, and maximizes treatment efficiency when the system is within capacity limits. The underlying optimization is nonlinear due to the microbial growth kinetics and bilinear mass flows. Using a second-order cone relaxation of the microbial growth constraints and the alternating direction method of multipliers, we break down the problem into second-order cone and quadratic programs. This allows us to solve the problem at large scales in real-time. In a case study based on the wastewater transport and treatment system in the City of Paris, our controller outperforms the conventional flowrate-based controller by removing 13.7% more pollutant mass while treating the same amount of wastewater.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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