Feasibility of On-line Measurement of Sewage Components Using the UV Absorbance and the Neural Network |
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Authors: | Hyeong-Seok Jeong Sang-Hyung Lee Hang-Sik Shin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | The objective of this study was to test the feasibility of a new method to improve the accuracy in the estimation of sewage
components. Adding to the regression of sewage components with UV (ultraviolet) absorbance values, a proposed method considered
an unclear but existing relationship among characteristic of sewage production. Sewage production showed very defined profiles
due to the daily human activities. So the main idea was the combination of measuring the UV absorbance values and analyzing
the characteristics of the sewage production. For this purpose, 446 sewage samples taken at every 2-h interval for 51 days
at a wastewater treatment plant were statistically analyzed using neural network (NN). NN was trained with 350 data sets (about
29 days) of UV absorbance values, flow rate and time. And as a result, it could predict 96 data (12 days) as a validation,
indicating that estimation accuracies were improved to higher level than those of the linear regressions. The proposed method
could estimate concentrations of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphate (TP) within practical accuracies as well as total
suspended solid. |
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Keywords: | Sewage UV absorbance On-line measurement Neural network |
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