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Global control of Barcelona sewerage system for environment protection

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Abstract

This paper deals with the use of optimal control techniques in the Barcelona urban drainage system, wich includes flow-diversion gates, detention tanks and a telemetry-telecontrol system. Optimal control is used to provide control strategies reducing the events of flooding and polluting discharges to the environment. The influence of rain prediction on the optimal control results analysed in this paper.

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control theory.

Author keywords

real-time control, urban drainage, predictive control, optimal control, environment protection

Scientific reference

G. Cembrano, J. Figueras, J. Quevedo, V. Puig, M. Salamero and J. Marti. Global control of Barcelona sewerage system for environment protection, 15th IFAC World Congress, 2002, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1-6, 2003, Elsevier Science.