Quantum Change

The Environmental Process Control Laboratory (EPCL) is the core piece of field equipment for our program of research and service in Environmental Informatics and Control.
Major field studies have been successfully undertaken on biological wastewater treatment systems, sediment transport and water quality in a Piedmont river, and nutrient cycling in a fertilized aquaculture pond. Augmented through further investments in Turner fluorometers and Hydrolab multi-variable sondes, our facility can collectively monitor:	incident solar radiation oxidation-reduction potential pH conductivity temperature oxygen uptake rate (respirometry) sludge blanket level dissolved oxygen (DO) total organic carbon concentration ammonium-N nitrite-N nitrate-N orthophosphate-P chlorophyll-a suspended solids (both high and low ranges) concentration
It can achieve this, moreover, in real time, at several locations contemporaneously, over extended periods of several months. Severn Trent Services are using a similar real-time monitoring capability to promote their business aims in contract operations. In short, the EPCL has given the program self-sufficiency in the acquisition of first-class field data to support its research on signal-processing algorithms, simulation modeling, and information management. It has projected our studies into the previously largely unexplored domain of developing schemes for reconciling high volume high quality (HVHQ) data with very high order models (VHOMs), such as the industry-standard IWA models of wastewater treatment. Click here to read more about Creating Benefits and Saving Costs