Environmental analysis of Wastewater Treatment Plants Control strategies

In this paper the environmental impacts of 10 control strategies implemented in the Benchmark Simulation Model No. 1 (BSM1) are evaluated by using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The aim is to analyze their environmental profiles in order to identify the main flows contributors to those impacts and to find the existing correlations between the control strategies and the selected impact categories. The knowledge of these correlations allows to assess where are located the main environmental impacts product of the plant's operation under the control strategies evaluated and to take actions in order to reduce them.