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Virtual Power Plant Anomaly Detection
Vymazal, Jan ; Kočí, Radek (referee) ; Zbořil, František (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with the implementation of a multi-agent system for the detection and prediction of anomalies during the operation of a virtual power plant. The thesis also deals with the implementation of a simulation that puts this multi-agent system into an environment that reflects the gradual addition of data in the real world. It also deals with the principles of communication between agents in a multi-agent environment according to FIPA standards. As part of the work, I created the multi-agent system in the JADE framework in the Java programming language and a script in the Python programming language that implements the simulation.
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Virtual Power Plant Anomaly Detection
Vymazal, Jan ; Kočí, Radek (referee) ; Zbořil, František (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with the implementation of a multi-agent system for the detection and prediction of anomalies during the operation of a virtual power plant. The thesis also deals with the implementation of a simulation that puts this multi-agent system into an environment that reflects the gradual addition of data in the real world. It also deals with the principles of communication between agents in a multi-agent environment according to FIPA standards. As part of the work, I created the multi-agent system in the JADE framework in the Java programming language and a script in the Python programming language that implements the simulation.
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The comparison of two waste water treatment systems - constructed wetlands and mechanical.
Dudíková, Kristýna ; Benešová, Libuše (advisor) ; Vymazal, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focused to the comparison of two wastewater treatment systems - constructed wetlands and mechanical-biological wastewater treatment plant. The main goal of the theses is to compare two types of wastewater treatment systems and to evaluate hypothesis that constructed wetlands are cheaper and more efficient than mechanical-biological wastewater treatment plant. To be able to compare two various wastewater treatment systems 18 (9 constructed wetlands and 9 mechanical-biological plants, three size groups of both types of plants) wastewater treatment plant were chosen and compared. The treatment effectiveness, investment and operating costs, advantages and disadvantages of both the systems were compared. The information about all individual systems was obtained from the local municipalities, operators and partially from the Ministry of Environment of CR. Obtained data involved treatment technology, amount of annual treated water, building data and capital and operating costs. In some waste water treatment plant (WWTP) the water samples were taken and the analyses of chosen parameters (not measured in WWTP) were done. Once in 2010 year the samples of water, sediments and sludges were taken and the analyses of heavy metals was done. For assessment of operational problems in constructed...
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Stoichiometric patterns in cold oligotrophic aquatic systems
Jaroměřská, Tereza ; Žárský, Jakub (advisor) ; Vymazal, Jan (referee)
Ecological stoichiometry is a conceptual framework which helps us to describe an ecosystem through its elemental composition, fluxes of matter and balance of energy. In glacier habitats, ecological patterns are different than in the terrestrial environment, and the research has been done mostly in the last decade. The result is that stoichiometric data only exists in small amounts, and are influenced by searching area and preference of the researcher. Stoichiometry of glacial hydrological systems has patterns which are specific for these habitats, and the knowledge about invertebrate stoichiometry living in those waters is still in its early days. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The comparison of two waste water treatment systems - constructed wetlands and mechanical.
Dudíková, Kristýna ; Benešová, Libuše (advisor) ; Vymazal, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focused to the comparison of two wastewater treatment systems - constructed wetlands and mechanical-biological wastewater treatment plant. The main goal of the theses is to compare two types of wastewater treatment systems and to evaluate hypothesis that constructed wetlands are cheaper and more efficient than mechanical-biological wastewater treatment plant. To be able to compare two various wastewater treatment systems 18 (9 constructed wetlands and 9 mechanical-biological plants, three size groups of both types of plants) wastewater treatment plant were chosen and compared. The treatment effectiveness, investment and operating costs, advantages and disadvantages of both the systems were compared. The information about all individual systems was obtained from the local municipalities, operators and partially from the Ministry of Environment of CR. Obtained data involved treatment technology, amount of annual treated water, building data and capital and operating costs. In some waste water treatment plant (WWTP) the water samples were taken and the analyses of chosen parameters (not measured in WWTP) were done. Once in 2010 year the samples of water, sediments and sludges were taken and the analyses of heavy metals was done. For assessment of operational problems in constructed...
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Total contents and speciation of arsenic and selenium in plants growing in soils with different physico-chemical properties
Tremlová, Jana ; Száková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Vymazal, Jan (referee)
This dissertation thesis deals with uptake, accumulation and transformation of arsenic and selenium in plants growing on soils with different chemico-physical soil properties. The contents of arsenic were investigated in 99 wild plant species, coming from 27 different families and 6 different vegetables growing in arsenic contaminated soils. The results suggest that there are species-specific mechanisms which protects certain plants from the excessive uptake of arsenic from the soil. On the other hand, there are plants using a strategy of accumulation, which theoretically may increase the risk of arsenic entry into the food chain, whether through grazing cattle and wildlife or through consumption of vegetables growing on arsenic contaminated soils. The most prevalent arsenic compounds are AsV and AsIII. Other arsenic compounds occure as minor species. An important finding was detection of arsenobetaine in Plantago lanceolata L. and Carex praecox Schreb ..
The contents of selenium were examined in 73 species of wild plants, coming from 29 different families. The results suggest that naturally low levels of selenium in the soil of selected locations along with a low capability of selenium uptake via collected plant species lead to the low content of selenium in plant biomass which may contribute to selenium deficient throughout the food chain. Foliar application of selenate on wild plant communities and on some types of vegetables in our case Brassica oleracea var. italica can have a positive impact on increasing the selenium content in the aboveground biomass of these plants and by extension, increase the selenium content in the human diet. Dominant selenium compounds in the aboveground biomass of the analyzed plants were SeVI and selenomethionine, with variable proportion of other commonly occurring organic selenium compounds, which is mainly affected by plant species.
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Adhesion of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris to solid surfaces
Širmerová, Marcela ; Vymazal, Jan (advisor) ; Mojmír, Mojmír (referee)
Although adhesion of bacteria and yeast have been extensively studied by a wide range of experimental and theoretical approaches, significantly less attention has been focused on microalgal adhesion to solid materials. Therefore this doctoral thesis is focused on physico-chemical aspects of microalgal adhesion. The results are based on experimental characterization of surface properties of both microalgae and solids by contact angle and zeta potential measurements. These data were subsequently used in modeling the surface interactions (thermodynamic, classical and extended DLVO models) resulting in quantitative prediction of the interaction intensities. Finally, the model predictions are compared with experimental adhesion tests of microalgae onto model solids in order to identify the physico-chemical forces governing the microalgae-solid interaction. The model solids were prepared in order to cover a wide range of properties (hydrophobicity, surface charge). The results revealed that in low ionic strength environment the adhesion was influenced mostly by electrostatic attraction/repulsion between surfaces, while with increasing ionic strength grew the importance of apolar (hydrophobic) interactions. Among tested materials the highest adhesion of Chlorella vulgaris cells was observed to (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane modified glass (APTES glass) mimicking the surface properties of stainless steel. The impact of solid surface properties on the degree of colonization by microlagae was statistically more significant than the influence of culture medium composition on cell surface of Chlorella vulgaris.
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Influence of targeted grassing in part of the waterdhed on nitrate concentrations trend in drainage and subsurface waters
Zajíček, Antonín ; Štibinger, Jakub (advisor) ; Vymazal, Jan (referee)
Water quality in small agricultural slopy catchments in Bohemian - Moravian highlands is often threatened by high nitrate concentration and nitrogen loads from diffusive agricultural sources. The main goal of this thesis was to get a practical evidence for findings obtained in the Czech Republic and abroad by statistical approaches concerning the profoundly mitigative effects that grassing certain catchment areas has on the nitrate burden in drainage and surface waters. The research was conducted mainly in the Dehtáře experimental catchment, where part of the recharge area with an area of 4.6 ha, has been grassed since the hydrological year 2007. Together with long-term monitoring of nitrate leaching in subcatchments with different land use in recharge and discharge are, drainage runoff generation and composition were surveyed in order to find knowledge about the recharge area placement and its importance for drainage water quality. The possibility of using the continuous measurement of water temperature for drainage runoff separation was also tested. The results presented show that nitrate concentration values in drainage water were influenced the most by the land use of the recharge zones within the drainage subcatchment. While permanent grassland placed directly in the drained area (corresponding to the catchment discharge zone) did not show any influence, the grassing focused on the catchment recharge area demonstrated a significant decrease in both, NO3 concentrations and N loads. Approximately one year after grassing, the long-term course of nitrates concentrations changed direction and became decreasing in sites with completely or partly grassed recharge zone, while in sites without land use change), the nitrate concentrations trend remains increasing or the stagnation was found. Decreases by 32% was detected in systematic drainage subsystem, which recharge area was completely grassed. The nitrate-nitrogen leaching decreased after grassing in recharge area of the drainage system by 23%. These findings can be generalised for slopy agricultural catchments with common land use in soil environments formed on crystalline rocks. The acquired findings are of high importance for improving the water quality of small streams as well as groundwater in agriculturally exploited areas, for planning protective zones within large catchments of potable water reservoirs, and also for protecting small local surface or groundwater sources of potable water.
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Design of a constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment at Lhota u Nahořan
Havlová, Eva ; Vymazal, Jan (advisor) ; Jaroslav, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis deals with the constructed wetlands (an aquatic plant root filter).
It characterizes a principle of effluent treatment, types of wetlands and treatment
process.
A part of the thesis is focused on wastewater sampling sites in Lhota u Nahořan
(situated nearby Náchod in Hradec Králové region) and on process of their
evaluation. It also describes the location and method of wastewater flow
measurement. The collected indicators of pollution and flow rates of the brook
in Lhota were used for hydro-technical calculations required for their own
constructed wetland project in Lhota u Nahořan.
There are two design options suggested for this given location with a population of
73 residents and where the average wastewater flow, as measured, is 113.18 m3/d.
The target rates of the ammonia nitrogen and the total phosphorus in the effluent
were determined to be 0.5 mg/l.
The first version of the solution was according to the horizontal and the other to the
vertical filters.
The main advantages of this this solution using aquatic plant root filters include
a naturally replicated process of wastewater treatment and low operating costs. Also
for these reasons, this green zone method is increasingly used for homes, holiday
residences and communities.
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