%0 Journal Article
%T Optimal control of a waste water cleaning plant
%A Ellina V. Grigorieva
%A Evgenii N. Khailov
%J Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
%D 2010
%I Texas State University
%X In this work, a model of a waste water treatment plant is investigated. The model is described by a nonlinear system of two differential equations with one bounded control. An optimal control problem of minimizing concentration of the polluted water at the terminal time T is stated and solved analytically with the use of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Dependence of the optimal solution on the initial conditions is established. Computer simulations of a model of an industrial waste water treatment plant show the advantage of using our optimal strategy. Possible applications are discussed.
%K Optimal control problem
%K nonlinear model
%K waste water cleaning process
%U http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/conf-proc/19/g4/abstr.html