Kern, Peter, Wolf, Christian, Gaida, Daniel, Bongards, Michael and McLoone, Sean (2014) COD and NH<inf>4</inf>-N estimation in the inflow of Wastewater Treatment Plants using Machine Learning Techniques. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 18-22 August 2014, Taipei.
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Abstract
The in-line measurement of COD and NH4-N in the WWTP inflow is crucial for the timely monitoring of biological wastewater treatment processes and for the development of advanced control strategies for optimized WWTP operation. As a direct measurement of COD and NH4-N requires expensive and high maintenance in-line probes or analyzers, an approach estimating COD and NH4-N based on standard and spectroscopic in-line inflow measurement systems using Machine Learning Techniques is presented in this paper. The results show that COD estimation using Radom Forest Regression with a normalized MSE of 0.3, which is sufficiently accurate for practical applications, can be achieved using only standard in-line measurements. In the case of NH4-N, a good estimation using Partial Least Squares Regression with a normalized MSE of 0.16 is only possible based on a combination of standard and spectroscopic in-line measurements. Furthermore, the comparison of regression and classification methods shows that both methods perform equally well in most cases.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Probes; Estimation; Standards; Support vector machines; Kernel; Wastewater; Temperature measurement; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering |
| Item ID: | 20860 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1109/CoASE.2014.6899419 |
| Depositing User: | IR Editor |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2025 15:40 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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