Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 14, Pages 10067-10076Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06111
Keywords
fault detection; online monitoring; sensor reliability; artificial neural networks; Shewhart charts; principal component analysis
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- Horiba Ltd.
- Orange County Sanitation District
- Water-Energy Nexus (WEX) Center at the University of California, Irvine
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This study built an artificial neural network model to predict the ammonium content in the effluent and conduct fault detection by utilizing the residual between the model prediction and the sensor signal. Typical faults collected from a historic dataset were utilized to accurately identify treatment process anomalies, calibration bias faults, and fouling drifts.
The increasing demand for online sensors applied to advanced control strategies in water resource recovery facilities has resulted in the increasing investigation of fault-detection methods to improve the reliability of sensors installed in harsh environments. The study herein focuses on the fault detection of ammonium sensors, especially for effluent monitoring, given their potential in ammonium-based aeration control applications. An artificial neural network model was built to predict the ammonium content in the effluent by employing the information from five other sensors installed in the activated sludge tank: NH4+, pH, ORP, DO, and TSS. The residual between the model prediction and the effluent ammonium sensor signal was utilized in a fault-detection mechanism based on principal component analysis and Shewhart monitoring charts. In contrast to previous studies, the present work utilizes typical faults collected from a 1 year historic dataset of an actual sensor setup. Treatment process anomalies, calibration bias faults, and fouling drifts were the most common issues identified from the historic dataset, and they were promptly identified by the proposed fault-detection methodology. Once a fault is detected, the model prediction can be actively used in place of the sensor for process control without affecting the treatment process by utilizing faulty datasets.
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