Research Activities

Water Quality Modelling

Water quality modelling for small river basins

Fuzzy modelling of algal dynamics in the Orbetello lagoon

Water Quality Modelling of the Arno river using QUAL2Kw

Use of the QUAL2E platform in the DPSIR conceptual model of the Water Framework Directive (WFD)

Interfacing between a river quality model (Matlab/Simulink platform) and a Geographical Information System (ARC-VIEW platform)

Modelling nutrient bioavailability in rivers through algal assays and a mathematical growth model

Modelling, Identification and Control of Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes

• Extension and efficient computer implementation of IAWQ ASM models
• Fuzzy inferential control of the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) process
• Modelling the effect of organic shock loads in Anaerobic Digesters
• Fuzzy control of storage to prevent hydraulic and organic overloading to biological wastewater treatment processes
• Carbon dosing control in the denitrification process through fuzzy predictive control

Parameter estimation of nonlinear environmental models

• Parameter estimation and confidence region estimation for nonlinear models, with applications to environmental systems

(constructed wetlands, river systems, respirometry)
• Engineering and testing of a double-vessel respirometer for activated sludge kinetic identification