LA MAXIMIZACIóN DEL BENEFICIO EN LAS EMPRESAS DEPURADORAS DE AGUAS RESIDUALES: EL CASO DE VALENCIA (ESPA？A)

the main purpose of this paper is to design a new way to maximize the profit of wastewater treatment plants (wwtp). the establishment of multiple goals impedes their simultaneous achievement. as a result, it will be enough to achieve a certain degree of satisfaction of each goal. sometimes this approach can be extremely difficult, so minor violations of some restrictions are exceptionally allowed. fuzzy goal-based scheduling can be considered a suitable tool for these kinds of problems. in short, wwtps will have a suitable tool for achieving profit maximization, and, at the same time, there will be a new system to measure efficiency in the sector.