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Afan HA, Melini Wan Mohtar WH, Khaleel F, Kamel AH, Mansoor SS, Alsultani R, Ahmed AN, Sherif M, El-Shafie A. Data-driven water quality prediction for wastewater treatment plants. Heliyon 2024; 10:e36940. [PMID: 39309819 PMCID: PMC11415851 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2024] [Revised: 08/16/2024] [Accepted: 08/25/2024] [Indexed: 09/25/2024] Open
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Monitoring and managing wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is crucial for environmental protection. The presection of the quality of treated water is essential for energy efficient operation. The current research presents a comprehensive comparison of machine learning models for water quality parameter prediction in WWTPs. Four machine learning models presented in MLP, GFFR, MLP-PCA, and RBF were employed in this study. The primary notion of this study is to apply the proposed models using two distinct modeling scenarios. The first scenario represents a straightforward approach by utilizing the inputs and outputs of WWTPs; meanwhile, the second scenario involves using multi-step modeling techniques, which incorporate intermediate outputs induced by primary and secondary settlers. The study also investigates the potential of the adopted models to handle high dimensional data as a result of the multi-step modeling since more data points and outputs are progressively integrated at each step. The results show that the GFFR model outperforms the other models across both scenarios, specifically in the second scenario in predicting conductivity (COND) by providing higher correlation accuracy (R = 0.893) and lower prediction deviations (NRMSE = 0.091 and NMAE = 0.071). However, all models across both scenarios struggle to predict the other water quality parameters, generating significantly lower prediction correlations and higher prediction deviations. Nonetheless, the innovative multi-step technique in scenario two has significantly boosted the prediction capacity of all models, with improvement ranging from 0.2 % to 157 % and an average of 60 %. The implementation of AI models has proven its ability to accomplish high accuracy for WQ parameter prediction, highlighting the impact of leveraging intermediate process data.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Wan Hanna Melini Wan Mohtar
- Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
- Environmental Management Center, Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Ministry of Electricity, The State Company of Electricity Production GCEP Middle Region, Baghdad, Iraq
- Department of Civil Engineering, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey
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- Upper Euphrates Basin Developing Center, University of Anbar, Iraq
- Dams and Water Resources Department, College of Engineering, University of Anbar, Iraq
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- Building and Construction Techniques Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Engineering Techniques, Al-Mustaqbal University, 51001, Babylon, Iraq
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- Research Centre For Human-Machine Collaboration (HUMAC), School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
- Department of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirate University, P.O. Box 15551, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- Civil and Environmental Eng. Dept., College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, 15551, United Arab Emirates
| | - Ahmed El-Shafie
- National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirate University, P.O. Box 15551, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Flexible, non-parametric modeling using regularized neural networks. Comput Stat 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00180-021-01190-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AbstractNon-parametric, additive models are able to capture complex data dependencies in a flexible, yet interpretable way. However, choosing the format of the additive components often requires non-trivial data exploration. Here, as an alternative, we propose PrAda-net, a one-hidden-layer neural network, trained with proximal gradient descent and adaptive lasso. PrAda-net automatically adjusts the size and architecture of the neural network to reflect the complexity and structure of the data. The compact network obtained by PrAda-net can be translated to additive model components, making it suitable for non-parametric statistical modelling with automatic model selection. We demonstrate PrAda-net on simulated data, where we compare the test error performance, variable importance and variable subset identification properties of PrAda-net to other lasso-based regularization approaches for neural networks. We also apply PrAda-net to the massive U.K. black smoke data set, to demonstrate how PrAda-net can be used to model complex and heterogeneous data with spatial and temporal components. In contrast to classical, statistical non-parametric approaches, PrAda-net requires no preliminary modeling to select the functional forms of the additive components, yet still results in an interpretable model representation.
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Wang G, Jia QS, Zhou M, Bi J, Qiao J, Abusorrah A. Artificial neural networks for water quality soft-sensing in wastewater treatment: a review. Artif Intell Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10462-021-10038-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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