Modeling and predicting biological performance of contact stabilization process using artificial neural networks

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 341-349

  Al Mutairi, Nayef ^a   Kartam, Nabil ^a   Koushki, Parviz ^a   Al Mutairi, Mubarek ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Algorithms; Microbes; Network analysis; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS (BPNN); DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY OF THE EFFLUENT (DAE); MICROBES;

EFFLUENTS;

EID: 16444367300     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2004)18:4(341)     Document Type: Article

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