Advances in Control Technologies for Wastewater Treatment Processes: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

摘要

This paper presents a thorough review of control technologies that have been applied to wastewater treatment processes in the environmental engineering regime in the past four decades.It aims to provide a comprehensive technological review for both water engineering professionals and control specialists,giving rise to a suite of up-to-date pathways to impact this field in light of the classified technology hubs.The assessment was conducted with respect to linear control,linearizing control,nonlinear control,and artificial intelligence-based control.The application domain of each technology hub was summarized into a set of comparative tables for a holistic assessment.Challenges and perspectives were offered to these field engineers to help orient their future endeavor.