Environmental science and pollution research international
Dec 20, 2014
The present investigation deals with the prediction of the performance of simultaneous anaerobic sulfide and nitrate removal in an upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor through an artificial neural network (ANN). Influent sulfide concentration, ...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Apr 1, 2020
An unconventional cascade control system, for the regulation of air supply in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), was tested. The dissolved oxygen (DO) set point in the aeration tank was dynamically calculated based on effluent ammo...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jul 1, 2019
It is highly essential that municipal wastewater is treated before its discharge and reuse in order to meet the standard requirements for safe marine life and for farming and industries. It is beneficial to use reclaimed water, since availability of ...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Mar 1, 2019
Sediment deposition in sewers and urban drainage systems has great effect on the hydraulic capacity of the channel. In this respect, the self-cleansing concept has been widely used for sewers and urban drainage systems design. This study investigates...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Dec 1, 2018
In the present study, three different artificial intelligence based non-linear models, i.e. feed forward neural network (FFNN), adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), support vector machine (SVM) approaches and a classical multi-linear regres...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
May 1, 2018
This work presents a methodology for automatic detection of structural faults in sewers from CCTV footage, which has been improved by combining the outputs of different machine learning techniques. The predictions of support vector machine and random...
Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation
Jan 1, 2018
This study analyzes the level of satisfaction of stakeholders in the public participation process (PPP) of water resources management, which is mandatory according to the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). The methodology uses a fuzzy set/qualitat...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Dec 1, 2017
This study reports adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) by magnetic manganese ferrite and manganese oxide nano-particles (MnF-MO-NPs) composite from aqueous media. The X-ray diffraction pattern of MnF-MO-NPs revealed a polycrystalline nature with nanoscale c...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Dec 1, 2017
In this paper, the measurement of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in a wastewater treatment process is analyzed and an intelligent integrated prediction method based on case-based reasoning (CBR) is proposed in order to overcome difficulties. Due to ...
The traditional biochemical treatment of printing and dyeing wastewater has limited efficiency. This study investigated whether HO could strengthen the biological ability of the hydrolytic acidification/biological contact oxidation process (A/O), whi...