AIMC Topic: Water Purification

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A supervisory fuzzy logic control scheme to improve effluent quality of a wastewater treatment plant.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
The application of control strategies in wastewater treatment plants has increased to improve their performance for treating influent. The fuzzy logic controller plays a vital role in this work and simulation work was carried out in a benchmark simul...

Performance improvement of wastewater treatment processes by application of machine learning.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Improving wastewater treatment processes is becoming increasingly important, due to more stringent effluent quality requirements, the need to reduce energy consumption and chemical dosing. This can be achieved by applying artificial intelligence. Mac...

Kinetic study of dye removal using TiO supported on polyethylene terephthalate by advanced oxidation processes through neural networks.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
This work investigated the efficiency of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as support material for TiO films in the photocatalytic degradation of red Bordeaux and yellow tartrazine dyes. The optimum operating conditions were determined by a factorial ...

Turbidity control on dissolved air flotation process using fuzzy logic.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
This study intends to explore fuzzy logic control on clean water turbidity process with dissolved air flotation (DAF). Three different strategies were tested to regulate clean water turbidity by manipulating the saturator vessel flow output aiming fo...

Application of the advanced oxidative process on the degradation of the green leaf and purple açaí food dyes with kinetic monitoring and artificial neural network modelling.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
The study evaluated the advanced oxidative processes concerning the degradation of green leaf and purple açaí dyes, as well as the prediction of data through artificial neural networks (ANNs). It was verified that percentage of degradation on the wav...

Chemical coagulation of greywater: modelling using artificial neural networks.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
In the present study, chemical coagulation with alum and polyaluminium chloride (PACl) was utilized for greywater treatment. More than 140 jar tests on greywater with varying characteristics were conducted in order to determine the optimum coagulant ...

An intelligent detecting system for permeability prediction of MBR.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
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...

Synthesis of MnFeO and MnO magnetic nano-composites with enhanced properties for adsorption of Cr(VI): artificial neural network modeling.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
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...

[Enhanced Treatment of Printing and Dyeing Wastewater Using HO-Biochemical Method].

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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...

An electrochemical sequential injection method to investigate the adsorption of selenite on Fe(III) polyhydroxy cations intercalated vermiculite.

Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
A sequential injection - square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SI-SWASV) method for determination of Se(IV) at a gold working electrode was developed to investigate the adsorption of Se(IV) onto vermiculite intercalated with Fe(III) polyhydroxy c...