PloS one
Jan 1, 2025
Effluent quality prediction is critical for optimizing Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, and promoting environmental sustainability. This study evaluates the performance of five supervised learning models-A...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jun 1, 2023
To prevent the pollution of water resources, the measurement and the limitation of wastewater discharges are required. Despite the progress in the field of data acquisition systems, sensors are subject to malfunctions that can bias the evaluation of ...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Dec 1, 2022
The biological treatment process (BTP) is responsible for removing chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia using microorganisms present in wastewater. The BTP consumes large quantities of energy due to the transfer of oxygen using air pumps/blowers....
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
Apr 1, 2020
This paper outlines a hybrid modeling approach to facilitate weather-based operation and energy optimization for the largest Italian wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Two clustering methods, K-means algorithm and Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based o...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jul 1, 2019
Wastewater flow forecasting is key for proper management of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, to predict the amount of incoming wastewater in WWTPs, wastewater engineers face challenges arising from numerous complexities and uncertainties...
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
Sep 1, 2018
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an artificial neural network-genetic algorithm (ANN-GA) artificial intelligence (AI) model in the prediction of behavior and optimization of an electro-oxidation pilot press-type reactor, which treats a synth...
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 science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2018
The membrane bioreactor (MBR) has been widely used to purify wastewater in wastewater treatment plants. However, a critical difficulty of the MBR is membrane fouling. To reduce membrane fouling, in this work, an intelligent detecting system is develo...