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Analysis and Prediction of Sewage Components of Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Neural Network  

Jeong, Hyeong-Seok (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Sang-Hyung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Shin, Hang-Sik (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Song, Eui-Yeol (Daejeon Metropolitan City Facility Management Corporation)
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Abstract
Since sewage characteristics are the most important factors that can affect the biological reactions in wastewater treatment plants, a detailed understanding on the characteristics and on-line measurement techniques of the influent sewage would play an important role in determining the appropriate control strategies. In this study, samples were taken at two hour intervals during 51 days from $1^{st}$ October to $21^{st}$ November 2005 from the influent gate of sewage treatment plant. Then the characteristics of sewage were investigated. It was found that the daily values of flow rate and concentrations of sewage components showed a defined profile. The highest and lowest peak values were observed during $11:00{\sim}13:00$ hours and $05:00{\sim}07:00$ hours, respectively. Also, it was shown that the concentrations of sewage components were strongly correlated with the absorbance measured at 300 nm of UV. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to develop on-line estimation technique of the concentration of each component in the sewage using accumulated profiles of sewage, absorbance, and flow rate which can be measured in real time. As a first step, regression analysis was performed using the absorbance and component concentration data. Then a neural network trained with the input of influent flow rate, absorbance, and inflow duration was used. Both methods showed remarkable accuracy in predicting the resulting concentrations of the individual components of the sewage. In case of using the neural network, the predicted value md of the measurement were 19.3 and 14.4 for TSS, 26.7 and 25.1 for TCOD, 5.4 and 4.1 for TN, and for TP, 0.45 to 0.39, respectively.
Keywords
Sewage; UV Absorbance; On-line Measurement; Neural Network;
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