Quantifying the uncertainty of on-line sensors at WWTPs during field operation

Water Research

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 5162-5174

  Rieger, Leiv ^a   Thomann, Michael ^b   Gujer, Willi ^a   Siegrist, Hansruedi ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b BMG Engineering Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monitoring; On line sensor; Precision; Response time; Trueness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS; WATER QUALITY;

ON-LINE SENSORS; PRECISION; RESPONSE TIME; TRUENESS; UNCERTAINTY;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MONITORING; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 28844469241     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.09.040     Document Type: Article

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