Shall we use hardware sensor measurements or soft-sensor estimates? Case study in a full-scale WWTP

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 215-229

  Haimi, Henri ^a   Corona, Francesco ^a,b   Mulas, Michela ^a,c   Sundell, Laura ^d   Heinonen, Mari ^d   Vahala, Riku ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^d HSY Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority   (Finland)

Author keywords

Process monitoring and supervision; Soft sensors; Switching system; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCESS MONITORING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; FILTRATION UNIT; HARDWARE SENSORS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NITRATE NITROGEN; RANKING PROCEDURES; ROBUST PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOFT SENSORS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

ARRAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DENITRIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FILTRATION; INDEX METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITRATE; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SENSOR; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84938700356     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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