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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 270, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110834
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Biochemical oxygen demand; Deep echo state network; Extreme learning machine; Gradient boosting regression tree; Random forests; Water quality prediction
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The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), one of widely utilized variables for water quality assessment, is metric for the ecological division in rivers. Since the traditional approach to predict BOD is time-consuming and inaccurate due to inconstancies in microbial multiplicity, alternative methods have been recommended for more accurate prediction of BOD. This study investigated the capability of a novel deep learning-based model, Deep Echo State Network (Deep ESN), for predicting BOD, based on various water quality variables, at Gongreung and Gyeongan stations, South Korea. The model was compared with the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and two ensemble tree models comprising the Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) and Random Forests (RF). Diverse water quality variables (i.e., BOD, potential of Hydrogen (pH), electrical conductivity (EC), dissolved oxygen (DO), water temperature (WT), chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (SS), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (T-P)) were utilized for developing the Deep ESN, ELM, GBRT, and RF with five input combinations (i.e., Categories 1-5). These models were evaluated by root mean square error (RMSE), NashSutcliffe efficiency (NSE), coefficient of determination (R-2), and correlation coefficient (R). Overall evaluations suggested that the Deep ESNS model provided the most reliable predictions of BOD among all the models at both stations.
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