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Nitrous oxide emission reduction RWZI Amsterdam-West

To reduce nitrous oxide emissions, the Amstel, Gooi and Vecht Water Board has implemented an AI control agent on one of the seven streets of RWZI Amsterdam West. The control agent is trained to control the process of aerating the sewage water in such a way as to reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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General information

Theme

Nature and Environment

Begin date

2022-07

Contact information

https://www.agv.nl/contact/contactformulier/

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Nitrous oxide is a strong greenhouse gas. Nitrous oxide emissions from sewage treatment plants account for a large part of the climate impact of water boards. The purpose of this algorithm is to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from RWZI Amsterdam West. Using this algorithm on one of the seven streets of RWZI Amsterdam West will reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

Considerations

The benefits of this algorithm is to significantly reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

Advantages:

  • Reduce nitrous oxide emision

Human intervention

  • The algorithm is activated, deactivated and controlled by the company executives.
  • The training data is carefully selected and reviewed by in-house experts.

Risk management

  • The algorithm is bounded by the business operators.
  • The operation of the algorithm is assessed by a human

Operations

Data

Sensor data including nitrous oxide, oxygen, ammonium and nitrate concentrations and water and air flow rates

External provider

Internally developed

Similar algorithm description

  • Real-time algorithm that continuously determines the amount of water (the water flow rate) routed to each of the 7 streets of sewage treatment plant RWZI Amsterdam-West.

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