Integrated Dynamic Aquaculture and Wastewater Treatment Modelling for Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
Journal article, 2009

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) in land based fish tanks, where the fish tank effluent is biologically treated and then recirculated back to the fish tanks, offers a possibility for large scale ecologically sustainable fish production. In order to fully exploit the advantages of RAS, however, the water exchange should be as small as possible. This implies strong demands on the water treatment, e.g. the maintenance of an efficient nitrification, denitrification and organic removal. Because of the RAS complexity, though, dynamic simulations are required to analyze and optimize a plant with respect to effluent water quality, production and robustness. Here, we present a framework for integrated dynamic aquaculture and wastewater treatment modelling. It provides means to analyze, predict and explain RAS performance. Using this framework we demonstrate how a new and improved RAS configurations is identified.

Aquaculture

moving bed

biofilm

integrated model

wastewater

control

Author

Torsten Wik

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

Björn Linden

Greenfish AB

Per Wramner

Södertörn University

Aquaculture

0044-8486 (ISSN)

Vol. 287 3-4 361-370

Subject Categories

Computational Mathematics

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

DOI

10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.10.056

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