Instrumentation for N2O control

Description

This webinar was organised by the Instrumentation, Control and Automation Specialist Group.

Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) is an essential part of environmental management. While necessary in ensuring public health and environmental protection, these facilities have significantly contributed to nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions. In one century, N₂O, has a global warming potential nearly 300 times greater than carbon dioxide, and this accentuates the urgency to address its release from WWTPs. Tackling these emissions is an environmental imperative and a step towards a sustainable future for the communities that these plants serve.

Process control is one opportunity to mitigate and minimise conditions that favour N₂O formation. However, process control relies on instrumentation with accurate real-time measurements, which is a bottleneck for N₂O mitigation.

This webinar demonstrated the latest measurement technologies for N₂O- measurements, including challenges that operators are facing in practice. Both off-gas, liquid phase N₂O-measurements and readily available sensors for AI-driven N₂O-assessment will be discussed – all from an Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA) perspective.

Webinar Resources

Master Presentation

Q&A Report