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Article history: A sampled delayed scheme is proposed to regulate the organic pollution level in anaerobic digestion pro-
Received 4 March 2011 cesses by using off-line COD measurements. The proposed scheme is obtained by combining an error
Received in revised form 12 May 2011 feedback control with a steady state estimator to track constant references and attenuate process load
Accepted 18 May 2011
disturbances. The controller performance is tested experimentally for the treatment of tequila vinasses
Available online 27 May 2011
over a period of 68 days under different set-point values and several uncertain scenarios which include
badly known kinetic parameters and load disturbances. Experimental results show that the COD concen-
Keywords:
tration can be effectively regulated under the inuence of set-point changes and high load disturbances
Anaerobic digestion
Bioprocess optimization
by using only a daily off-line COD measurement, which makes the industrial application of the proposed
Sampled delayed control control scheme feasible.
Wastewater treatment 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Tequila vinasses
1. Introduction Over the past decade, the regulation of the organic pollution
level has been addressed by proposing different control algorithms
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has regained the interest of the waste- (Ahring and Angelidaki, 1997; Schogerl, 2001; Mndez-Acosta
water treatment scientic and industrial community to reduce the et al., 2004, 2005; Alcaraz-Gonzlez et al., 2005; Olsson et al.,
organic pollution level from industrial and municipal efuents be- 2005; Steyer et al., 2006). In fact, a summary of the advantages
cause of their low initial and operational costs, smaller space and drawbacks of several control schemes when applied to AD pro-
requirements, high organic removal efciency and low sludge pro- cesses has been recently reported by Steyer et al. (2006) who have
duction. In addition, AD has an extra energy benet through the shown that, most of these control laws have been based in contin-
production of biogas. However, its widespread application has uous control approaches that required continuous or, at least, fast
been limited because of the difculties involved in achieving the enough measurements (which can be approached to a continuous
efcient operation of these processes. This is why actual research measurement) in order to be implemented, a condition which is
aims not only to extend the application of AD, but also to optimize not always possible to satisfy in practice because of technological
and increase the robustness of these processes. Thus, the imple- or cost restrictions. The practical implementation of such control
mentation of appropriate, carefully designed and efcient control schemes is further compounded by the long time delays induced
strategies for AD processes has become a very important research by the sample processing (which include the off-line sampling rate,
area during the last years. sample preparation and laboratory analysis). Thus, a sampled de-
It is well known that, in order to guarantee the so-called oper- layed control scheme is devised here to cope with the aforemen-
ational stability (Hill et al., 1987) and to avoid the eventual break- tioned control problems, while taking into account all the system
down of AD processes, the organic matter in the liquid phase must information as it is available. The proposed control scheme is
be kept within a set of predetermined values, which depend on fac- designed and applied in the treatment of tequila vinasses to regu-
tors such as the reactor conguration and the characteristics of the late the organic pollution level measured as chemical oxygen de-
wastewater to be treated (Ahring and Angelidaki, 1997). However, mand (COD) by using the dilution rate as the control input. The
the complex nonlinear and nonstationary nature of the AD process, paper is organized as follows. First, the considered AD model used
the feed composition overloads, and the presence of toxic and in the controller design is briey described. Later, the control
inhibitory compounds enhance the control problems that are asso- scheme is proposed and tested experimentally in an up-ow
ciated to the regulation of the organic pollution level. xed-bed reactor (FBR) used for the treatment of tequila vinasses.
Then, the controller performance and its robustness are evaluated
Corresponding author. Tel.: +52 33 13785900; fax: +52 33 39425924. under different operating conditions and uncertain scenarios.
E-mail address: hugo.mendez@cucei.udg.mx (H.O. Mndez-Acosta). Finally, some concluding remarks are given.
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doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.053
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Z d
2. Methods
Ad0 eA0 d ; Bd0 eA0 k dkB0 ; C d0 C 0 ;
0
2.1. AD model Z 1ed
Bd1;0 eA0 k dkB0 ; Bd2;0 Bd0 Bd1;0 3
0
In this work, a simplied version of the mass-balance model
proposed by Bernard et al. (2001) is used in the controller design. where A0 @f =@xx;u;kxss ;uss ;0 ; B0 @f =@ux;u;kxss ;uss ;0 and C 0
This model has been widely used for monitoring and control pur- @h=@xx;kxss ;0 . Then, from the robust regulation theory (Isidori,
poses due to its simplicity and its capability to represent the 1995; Garca-Sandoval et al., 2007) and by assuming that the pairs
dynamics of various continuous AD bioreactors. Then, without loss
Ad0 Bd0
of generality, the dynamics of the total soluble COD concentration Ad0 ; Bd1;0 and Ad ; C d Ad , where Ad and
0 I
in continuous AD processes operating under isothermal conditions
C d C d0 0 are controllable and observable, respectively; a
can be described by the following equations:
local solution for the proposed delayed output discrete robust reg-
X_ lST aDX ulation problem can be obtained by using the following discrete
0
1 controller
S_ T ST;in ST D k lST X
bn j nj Gd1 C d0 nj ej 4
where X (g/L) denotes the microorganisms population involved in
bf j fj Gd2 C d0 nj ej 5
the AD process, D (1/d) is the dilution rate, while ST and ST;in
(gCOD/L) are the total soluble COD concentration at the process nj1 Ad0 bx j Bd0 bf j Bd1;0 uj Bd2;0 uj1 6
efuent and inuent, respectively. lST (1/d) represents the spe-
cic growth rate of the bacterial population given by a Monod type
fj1 bf j 7
uj K d b
n j bf j
0
function and k (gCOD/g X) is the yield coefcient related to the deg- j 1; 2; 3; . . . 8
radation rate of the total soluble COD. Finally, a represents the frac-
tion of microorganisms that is not xed on the bed, and therefore, where uj is the discrete input applied to the nonlinear system (2)
may be affected by the dilution effect. Thus, it is evident that by set- between jd < t 6 j 1d, nj and fj represent the regulation error
ting a = 1, Model (1) describes the dynamics of a Continuous Stirred and the steady state input estimators, while b
n j and b
f j are their up-
Tank Reactor (CSTR) where the biomass is completely suspended in date values when the regulation error ej is available. K d and
the liquid phase. Moreover, it has been shown that with 0 < a < 1, T
Gd GTd1 GTd2 are such that the matrices Ad0 Bd0 K d and
Model (1) can be successfully used to describe the dynamics of
uidized-bed and xed-bed bioreactors (Escudie et al., 2005). Ad Gd C d Ad are Schur (i.e., all its eigenvalues lie within the uni-
tary circle). Thus, given the existence of the symmetrical matrices
2.2. Controller design Q > 0 and M > 0, a sufcient condition to guarantee the stability
of the proposed discrete controller (4)(8) is that the following
2.2.1. Basic concepts Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) hold
First, let us consider the following nonlinear system !
T M WT0 Q W1
W 0Q W0 Q 2M 6 0; >0 9
_
xt f xt; ut; k WT1 Q W0 M WT1 Q W1
2
et hxt s; r; k
where
where x 2 Rn and u 2 R are the state and input process variables, 0 1
respectively. k 2 Rp denotes an uncertain parameter vector which Ad0 Bd1;0 K d Bd1;0 K d Bd1;0
B C
may take values in a neighborhood } 2 Rp of the system nominal W0 @ 0 Ad0 Gd1 C d0 Ad0 Bd0 Gd1 C d0 Ad0 A
values. r represents a constant reference signal, while e describes 0 Gd2 C d0 Ad0 1 Gd2 C d0 Ad0
the delayed regulation error given by the difference between the
0 1
system output and the reference signal, with s as a constant delay. Bd2;0 K d Bd2;0 K d Bd2;0
It is also considered that the output signal is acquired with a sam- B C
W1 @ 0 0 0 A
pling period, d, which may be bigger than the acquisition delay (i.e.,
0 0 0
s ed for 0 < e < 1). Then, the delayed output discrete robust reg-
ulation problem can be stated as follows. Find, if possible, a feed-
Eqs. (4) and (5) render the state controller updates at each sampling
back dynamic discrete controller with sampling period d, such
instant used to generate the control input (8), while by using (6)
that, for all admissible parameters values e and k around the system
and (7), it is possible to predict the next states of the controller. This
nominal values, the following conditions are met:
updating procedure takes advantage of the measurements as they
are readily available. The solution and existence of the LMIs (9)
Stability. The solution of the closed-loop system, without distur-
guarantee the system stability regardless of the output delay. Then,
bances but with parametric variations at the sampling
n 2 Rn and its update b n, represent an observer for x, while f 2 R and
instant goes asymptotically to zero.
its update b f are used to calculate the required steady-state input. A
Regulation. For each initial condition of both the process and the more detailed discussion about the results summarized in this
controller in a neighborhood of the origin, the solu- section can be found in the Appendix.
tion of the closed-loop system under the inuence
of disturbances and parametric variations must 2.2.2. Sampled delayed COD control
guarantee limt!1 et 0. By following the previously described ideas, a robust sampled
delayed control can be designed to regulate the organic pollution
Now, let us consider the following matrices Ad0 ; Bd0 and C d0 , level in AD processes by using off-line COD measurements. Thus,
which are the discretized nominal matrices of the linear approxi- from model (1), the linear matrices around the process nominal
mation of the nonlinear system (2), i.e., values are given by
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!
lST;r 1 k0 H k 0
1 described in the following section. A remotely controllable peristal-
A0 ; B0 ST;in ST;r 0 ; tic pump was connected to the dilution tank to ensure the desired
a H 0 1=k
C0 1 0 inuent ow rate. Fresh substrate was mixed with the recycled
liquid just before entering the reactor in order to ensure homoge-
lST;r
where H ST;in ST;r k0KlS S2 and lST;r lm ST;r =K S ST;r . neous conditions. The process efuent was collected by overow
m T;r
Then, depending on the set-point value, matrices K d and Gd are cal- in a receiving vessel. The digester temperature was regulated at
culated in order to guarantee that matrices Ad0 Bd0 K d and 35 1 C by using an immersion circulator and water as heat trans-
fer liquid which was conducted through the digester jacket.
Ad Gd C d Ad are Schur and that the LMIs dened in (9) are
fullled. 2.3.3. On-line measurements
The digester was fully instrumented and automated, allowing
2.3. Experimental set-up the on-line measurement of variables such as pH, temperature,
pressure and the biogas and wastewater ow rates. A National
2.3.1. On the inuent characteristics Instruments cRIO9004 device equipped with analogical and digi-
Experiments were performed by using raw tequila vinasses as tal cards was used in the acquisition, treatment and storage of the
substrate. Tequila vinasses were collected from a cooling reservoir data. This device also included the appropriate ports and capabili-
in a tequila factory located at La Laja-Jalisco, Mexico. It is impor- ties that allow the remote monitoring and control of the process
tant to remark that around 95% of the total COD is soluble in this from an internet connection. The programming of this device
type of efuents. Additional characteristics of the tequila vinasses was carried out by using the LabVIEW 8.2 software.
used in this work are listed in Table 1.
2.3.4. Off-line measurements
Additionally to the previously described on-line measurements,
2.3.2. The AD process off-line measurements were also performed during this work. The
The schematic layout of the tequila vinasses treatment used in COD was determined by the closed reux colorimetric method by
this work is shown in Fig. 1. The AD process was carried out in an using the HACH digester DBR200 and the spectrophotometer
up-ow xed-bed digester, which was made of Polyvinyl Chloride DR2800. It is important to remark that the COD determined during
(PVC) with an effective volume of 2.8 L. The support used consists the experiments corresponds to the soluble COD because: (a) most
of three PVC tubes (30 cm length, 5 cm diameter) with an inner of the COD present in Tequila vinasses is soluble and (b) a possible
cross shaped plates that increase the surface area available for bio- contribution of washed out biomass in the COD measurement is
lm attachment. The rst part of the process is conformed by a 6 L eliminated. Partial (PA), total (TA) and intermediate (IA) alkalini-
dilution tank, where known volumes of tap water and raw vinasses ties as well as bicarbonate (B) were also determined according to
can be mixed in different proportions allowing the manipulation of Ripley et al. (1986). Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) were measured with
the inuent COD concentration. At this point, the vinasses pH was a HPLC Watters 600 using a 2487-Absorbance detector with a wave
regulated between 6.5 and 7.0 by adding a NaOH solution through length of 204 nm and the Alltech colon OA-1000 which is special
an offon control scheme, which is computed by the control device for organic acids. HPLC operating conditions were the following:
mobile phase, sulphuric acid 0.01 N; mobile phase ow rate,
0.8 mL/min and column temperature, 60 C. These operating condi-
Table 1
tions allow the detection of acetic, propionic, butyric, isobutyric
Characteristics of the industrial tequila vinasses.
and valeric acids in a concentration range from 0 to 25 g/L by each
Component Value (g/L) acid. Finally, the biogas composition was determined by gas chro-
pH, 25 C 35 matography using a Perkin Elmer AutoSystem XL with a TCD detec-
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) 1324 tor and an Alltech packed colon Hayesep D 100/120. The operating
Total chemical oxygen demand (COD) 2850
conditions used by the chromatograph were the following: carrier
Total suspended solids (TSS) 12
Volatile suspended solids (VSS) 9.8 gas, nitrogen; pressure of 386 kPa; temperature of the injector,
Total Volatile Fatty Acids CH3 COOH 2.53.4 120 C; temperature of the detector, 100 C and oven temperature,
60 C. The samples used to determine the inuent composition
Fig. 1. Schematic view of the AD process used in the treatment of tequila vinasses.
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were taken from the dilution tank, while the efuent samples were
withdrawn from the recycling loop.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Fig. 3. Response of the (a) total VFA concentration, (b) alkalinity factor, (c) biogas production and (d) biogas composition under the effect of the proposed control scheme.
< 800 mgHAc=L preserving the AD operational stability. Note, in (1.5 gCOD/L). This result may be explained by the fact that the ap-
particular, at day 30 also when pure vinasses were fed to the plied organic loading rate (OLR) was higher during the rst set-
digester. As a result of this drastic load change, the VFA concentra- point (17.2 gCOD/L d) than that used in the third set-point
tion exhibited a sudden increase that affected the process stability. (12.9 gCOD/L d). Finally, the biogas composition is depicted in
Nevertheless, after two sampling periods, the control scheme was Fig. 3d. As seen, the methane composition was kept around 70%
able to reject this disturbance driving the total VFA concentration during the whole controller implementation but dropped to a low-
back to the previous safe conditions. These results also indicate er methane percentage when pure vinasses were fed to the diges-
the excellent adaptation of the microbial consortium in severe ter at day 30. However, the proposed controller was able to drive
and hard conditions and particularly during and after the strong the methane composition back to the previous conditions.
load disturbance at day 30, when the digester was fed with pure
vinasses.
4. Conclusions
Here, it is important to remark that although the proposed con-
troller was originally devised to regulate the COD concentration, it
A sampled delayed control scheme for the regulation of the
was capable to maintain the VFA concentration under stable condi-
organic pollution level in AD processes was proposed and experi-
tions preserving the so-called operational stability of the AD pro-
mentally evaluated in a FBR used for the treatment of tequila vin-
cess. However, the variable composition of the inuent vinasses
asses. The controller yields robustness in the face of parametric
and the complex nature of the AD process call for a detailed anal-
uncertainties, load disturbances, and variable set-points by using
ysis of the control problem prior to the design and development of
only a daily off-line COD measurement. The proposed scheme is
the proper controller. For instance, even under stable COD concen-
particularly encouraging to scale it up to industrial applications
tration conditions, one should pay attention to the excessive accu-
because: (a) its simple structure is easy to implement, (b) expen-
mulation of VFA which causes the biomass wash-out and the
sive on-line sensors are not required and (c) neither the exact
eventual breakdown of the bioreactor. One should expect further
knowledge of the inuent composition nor the process kinetics
process failures if the control design does not take into account
are also required.
the effect of inuent toxic and/or inhibitory compounds (even in
small quantities) on the process stability. Therefore, the proposal
Acknowledgements
and implementation of control schemes based in the here pro-
posed methodology but focused on the process stability will be
This work was supported by Projects 25927/CONACyT-CB/
an interesting case for future works (Mndez-Acosta et al., 2010;
J50282-Y, 116655/CONACyT-FORDECyT and PROMEP/103.5/08/
Ward et al., 2011).
2919.
To complete the picture, Fig. 3c shows the biogas produced un-
der the effect of the proposed robust control approach. It is well
known that the biogas production is a key variable to determine Appendix A. Mathematical results useful in the controller
the AD efciency and can be related to the COD and VFA degrada- design
tion. Notice that the biogas production was lower during the third
set-point change compared to that reached during the rst set- Let us consider the existence of mappings xss pr; l, and
point even when the efuent COD was regulated at the same value uss cr; l which solve the equations
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for all admissible values of l }, with p0; l 0 and c0; l 0, Bd0;1 eA0 k B0 dk and Bd0;2 eA0 k B0 dk
0 ds
both dened in a neighborhood of the origin of r; l 0; 0. Notice
that pr; k denes the state vector for the zero output submanifold Thus, the discrete linear approximation of system (11)-(13 ) using
of system (2), while cr; l is the necessary input to make invariant input (8) is the following
this submanifold. Notice that this input depends only on the
xd k 1 Ad0 xd k Bd0 zd k Bd0;1 K d nd k
reference, r, and on the uncertain parameter vector; therefore, it 18
fd k Bd0;2 K d nd k 1 fd k 1
is constant and can be generated from the dynamic system
z_ 0; cr; l z. By dening
Now, if one considers the deviation of the steady state !
xt xt pr; k, by using the central manifold theory one may nd k xd k nd k
#d k
nd a suitable mathematical model of system (2) which is given by fd k zd k fd k
xt A0 xt B0 zt B0 ut f2 xt; k 11 since x xd k and z
d k d k zd k, the dynamics of #d is given by
z_ t 0 12
et C 0 xt s h2 xt s; r; k 13 #d k I Gd C d #d k 19
where #d k 1 Ad #d k 20
@f @f @h where Ad and C d are dened in (3). Then, by taking (19) to the next
A0 ; B0 and C 0 sampling instant and by substituting (20), the following expression
@x 0;0 @u 0;0 @x 0
is obtained
while f2 and h2 contain the second or higher order terms, which
vanish at the origin with their rst order derivatives. z 2 R repre- #d k 1 I Gd C d Ad #d k 21
sents an immersion of the steady state input, cr; l. As can be seen,
(11)(13) is an extended representation of system (2) since the Therefore, if Gd renders Schur the matrix Ad Gd C d Ad , then
immersion (12), which renders the steady state input cr; k, was limk!1 #
d k 0, which implies that nd k and fd k of the proposed
et k hxkd; r; l : ed k #d k 1 W0 #d k W1 #d k 1 22
then at time t k , it is possible to estimate the values of xkd where W0 and W1 are described in Section 2.2.1. Notice
that K d and
xt k s and zkd zt k s by using ed k in a discrete observer. Gd render Schur the matrices Ad0 Bd1;0 K d and Ad Gd C d Ad ,
The discretized version of the linear approximation of (11)-(13) respectively. Then, W0 is also Schur and by dening the Lyapunov
from one sampling instant to the next (i.e., from t kd to function
t k 1d) is
V #T T
d kP#d k #d k 1Q #d k 1
Z d
xd k 1 Ad0 xd k Bd0 zd k eA0 k B0 ukd d kdk 14 the increment of V is given by
0
DV #T T
d k 1P#d k 1 #d kP Q#d k
zd k 1 zd k 15
#T
d k 1Q #d k 1
ed k C 0 xd k 16 T T
#T T
d kW0 P W0 P Q#d k #d k 1W1 P W0 #d k
where xd k xkd, zd k zkd, T T
#T T
d kW0 P W1 #d k 1 #d k 1W1 P W1 #d k 1
Z d
Ad0 eA0 d ; Ud eUd and Bd0 eA0 k B0 dk 17 Thus, if the rst LMI in (9) holds, the following inequality also holds
0 !T
#d k
Notice that in order to calculate the integral in (14), it is necessary DV
to know the behavior of the input from t kd to t k 1d. Thus, #d k 1 #d k
! !
if the controller (4)(8) is used, it is evident that (4) and (5) perform Q WT0 PW1 #d k
the updating values of nd and fd at time t k k ed when the out-
WT1 PW0 Q WT1 PW1 #d k 1 #d k
put is available. Therefore, for kd t < k 1d the input (8) is
equal to Furthermore, if the second LMI of (9) is satised, it can be guaran-
( teed that DV < 0. As a consequence, system (22) is asymptotically
K d nd k 1 fd k 1 if kd t < kd s stable, guaranteeing that the proposed discrete controller (4)(8)
ut
K d nd k fd k if kd s t < k 1d stabilizes the nonlinear system (2) in a neighborhood of the origin.
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