Instrumentation, Control and Automation
The Specialist Group (SG) covers the fields of Instrumentation, Control and Automation of water systems including drinking water, surface water and wastewater.
The objectives of the Specialist Group are:
1. To provide and maintain an international discussion forum to collect and exchange methodologies and experience on all aspects of instrumentation (including sensor technology), control and automation for water systems;
2. To collect, summarize and publish practical experience (e.g. through case studies) to support and promote the use of ICA in practice;
3. To highlight socio-economic and sustainability aspects of ICA (e.g. management problems, operator aspects or incentive systems).
Specific topics may include:
a. sensors and instrumentation;
b. modelling and simulation for control and operation (collaboration with the MIA Specialist Group of IWA);
c. water systems process control;
d. detection, diagnosis and early warning;
e. decision support and risk assessment.
Conference Organisation
The ICA SG organizes two conferences,each one every four years: one on all aspects of ICA (the ICA conference series) and a second focusing on sensors and monitoring networks (the AutMoNet conference series). The 10th IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation of Water and Wastewater Systems (ICA2009) took place 14-17 June 2009 in Cairns, Australia.” And add the following sentence. “The 11th IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation of Water and Wastewater Systems (ICA2013) will take place 18-20 September 2013
Task groups
Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants
The goal of the task group is to promote the use of the benchmark simulation protocols described above and produce a Scientific and Technical Report (as part of IWA Publishing’s series). The task group will maintain a website for the publication of on-going activities (www.benchmarkwwtp.org). Interest in the benchmark protocols has been extensive and the website is seen as the best platform for communication with interested parties including getting feedback and getting input from benchmark users whether they are experienced users or just getting started. Dissemination of results as well as inviting the research community to comment and influence the direction of the work will also be initiated via conferences and workshops.
Task Group Committee:
Chair: Ulf Jeppsson (Sweden)
Vice-Chair: Peter Vanrolleghem (Canada)
Secretary: John Copp (Canada)
Other committee members: Marie-Noëlle Pons (France); Jens Alex (Germany); Krist Gernaey (Denmark); Christian Rosen (Sweden); Jean-Philippe Steyer (France)
IWA Task Group on The use of water quality and process models for minimizing wastewater utility greenhouse gas footprints
Task group on “The use of water quality and process models for minimizing wastewater utility greenhouse gas footprints” is a newly established group. Two things are remarkable about this TG. Firstly, it is a jointly formed task group by several specialist groups: Sustainability SG, Nutrient Removal SG, Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment SG, Instrumentation, Control and Automation SG, Urban Drainage SG, Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering SG. This is obviously related to the multiple angles from which the problem can be approached (system understanding, system modeling, process sustainability) and the different scales (treatment plant, sewer, integrated urban water system) that can be considered to define the problem boundaries. Secondly, since the matter is one of the major future challenges of the next generation in the water business, YWPs are involved as key individuals, in close collaboration with the aforementioned specialist groups. These YWPS are also leading the TG under the guidance of the more seasoned members. This approach can help maintain continuity in effective leadership throughout the various IWA groups.
Committee composition of GHG TG
Chair/co-chair: Jose Porro, Malcolm Pirnie (USA), and Ingmar Nopens, BIOMATH, Ghent University (Belgium)
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Model development and research nitrogen GHG:/Kartik Chandran (Columbia University, USA) and Marlies Kampschreur (TU Delft, Netherlands)
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Model development and research methane: Zhiguo Yuan (University of Queensland, Australia) and Jing Liu (Bioprocess Control, Sweden)
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Plant-wide modelling and Benchmarking: Ingmar Nopens (Ghent University, Belgium) and Andrew Shaw (Black and Veatch, USA)
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Validation and research gaps identification: Bernhard Wett (ARA Consult, Austria) and Sudhir Murthy (DCWASA, USA)
Chair
Dr Alejandro Vargas Casillas
Lab. for Research on Adv. Proc. for Water Treatment
UNAM Blvd. Juriquilla 3001
Queretaro, Mexico
76230
Tel: 52 442 1926166
Fax: 52 442 1926166
Secretary
Prof. Eveline Volcke
Department of Biosystems Engineering
Coupure links 653
Ghent
B-9000
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0) 9 264 61 29
Fax: +32 (0) 9 264 62 35
Management Committee
see committee members here
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