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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 348, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131360
Keywords
Machine learning; Wastewater treatment; pH prediction; Dosage control; Sensitivity analysis
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- Washington University in St. Louis
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This study utilized machine learning models to predict pH and control lime dosage in a neutralization process for wastewater treatment. The models achieved good performance in pH prediction and dosage control. Sensitivity analysis revealed the significant impact of temperature, valve position, and upstream pH on the results.
Proper pH control is important to the neutralization of industrial wastewater that will facilitate downstream biological treatment and can strongly affect the utilization of chemical reagent/resource. This study aimed to apply machine learning (ML) models for both pH prediction and lime dosage control towards enhanced automated control of neutralization processes. To achieve this goal, eight ML models were employed and compared in modeling performance, and optimized by using correlation analysis, cross-validation, and grid search techniques. In the neutralizer pH prediction, the highest coefficients of determination (R2) results were obtained at 0.765 (k nearest neighbors KNN), 0.918 (eXtreme Gradient Boosting XGBoost), and 0.900 (random forest RF) for three neutralizer tanks, accompanied with the lowest root-mean-square error (RMSE) values of 0.289, 0.100, and 0.093, respectively. The impacts of input features were quantified by sensitivity analysis using SHAP values, which demonstrated the importance of temperature, valve position, and upstream pH as high as 0.214, 0.156, and 0.118 (the mean of absolute SHAP value). For lime dosage control, the best model performance came from XGBoost (R-2 values of 0.605) for valve 1, RF (0.788) for valve 2, and RF (0.436) for valve 3 with the corresponding RMSE values of 8.056, 6.125, and 4.466, respectively. The recommended valve position was based on the target pH and some examples were illustrated at different upstream pH values. The results of this study has demonstrated that ML approach can be an effective tool to help conserve chemical resources via enhanced chemical dosage control in wastewater treatment.
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