Machine learning model for residual chlorine prediction in sediment basin to control pre-chlorination in water treatment plant

Juhwan Kim; Kyunghyuk Lee; Soojun Kim; Kyunghun Kim

doi:10.3741/JKWRA.2022.55.S-1.1283

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Machine learning model for residual chlorine prediction in sediment basin to control pre-chlorination in water treatment plant 정수장 전염소 공정제어를 위한 침전지 잔류염소농도 예측 머신러닝 모형

31 December 2022. pp. 1283-1293

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to predict residual chlorine in order to maintain stable residual chlorine concentration in sedimentation basin by using artificial intelligence algorithms in water treatment process employing pre-chlorination. Available water quantity and quality data are collected and analyzed statistically to apply into mathematical multiple regression and artificial intelligence models including multi-layer perceptron neural network, random forest, long short term memory (LSTM) algorithms. Water temperature, turbidity, pH, conductivity, flow rate, alkalinity and pre-chlorination dosage data are used as the input parameters to develop prediction models. As results, it is presented that the random forest algorithm shows the most moderate prediction result among four cases, which are long short term memory, multi-layer perceptron, multiple regression including random forest. Especially, it is result that the multiple regression model can not represent the residual chlorine with the input parameters which varies independently with seasonal change, numerical scale and dimension difference between quantity and quality. For this reason, random forest model is more appropriate for predict water qualities than other algorithms, which is classified into decision tree type algorithm. Also, it is expected that real time prediction by artificial intelligence models can play role of the stable operation of residual chlorine in water treatment plant including pre-chlorination process.

Keywords

Machine learning

Residual chlorine prediction

Random forest

Multilayer perceptron

Long short term memory

본 연구는 정수장의 수처리 공정에서 계측되고 있는 수량 및 수질데이터의 활용과 수처리 공정제어의 지능화를 위한 것으로 정수장에서 전염소 공정이 수반되는 처리공정에서 침전지 유출수 잔류염소농도 안정화를 위하여 이를 추정할 수 있는 모형을 구축하고자 하였다. 정수장 침전지 유출수의 잔류염소농도를 예측하기 위하여 중회귀모형과 인공지능 알고리즘 중 다층퍼셉트론 신경망, 랜덤포레스트 및 장단기기억(Long Short Term Memory; LSTM) 모형을 활용하였고 그 결과를 비교, 평가하였다. 모형의 입력변수로는 전염소 공정이 도입된 정수장에서의 잔류염소농도, 수온, 탁도, pH, 전기전도도, 유량, 알칼리도 등이 사용되었고 전염소에 따른 침전지의 안정적 운영을 위해 요구되는 침전지 잔류염소농도를 출력변수로 구성하였다. 적용 결과에서는 랜덤포레스트 모형이 가장 양호한 결과를 보여 주었으며 다음으로 LSTM, 다층퍼셈트론 신경망 순으로 나타났다. 수학적 모형인 중회귀모형은 적합도 측면에서 가장 낮은 결과를 보여 주었는데, 이는 수량과 수질데이터의 수치적인 규모나 차원의 차이뿐만 아니라 계절별 수질특성에 따라 염소소비 특성이 매우 다양하게 반응하기 때문으로 판단된다. 따라서 정수장 수처리 공정에서 인공지능 알고리즘의 적용을 위해서는 랜덤포레스트와 같이 의사결정 트리구조의 도입과 적용이 타당한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 분석된 결과를 근거로 전염소 공정이 도입된 정수장 수처리 공정에서 염소주입량을 실시간으로 예측 가능하게 함으로써 침전지 유출수에서 잔류염소농도를 일정하게 유지하는데 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

키워드

머신러닝

잔류염소농도 예측

랜덤포레스트

다층퍼셉트론 신경망

장단기 기억모형

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Publisher :KOREA WATER RESOURECES ASSOCIATION
Publisher(Ko) :한국수자원학회
Journal Title :Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
Journal Title(Ko) :한국수자원학회 논문집
Volume : 55
No :12
Pages :1283-1293
Received Date : 2022-09-15
Revised Date : 2022-11-16
Accepted Date : 2022-11-18
DOI :https://doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2022.55.S-1.1283

Journal of Korea Water Resources Association ISSN:2799-8746(Print) 2799-8754(Online) 한국수자원학회 논문집

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