Accurate prediction of wastewater treatment plants(WWTPs) influent quality can provide valuable decision-making support to facilitate operations and management.However,since existing methods overlook the data noise ge...Accurate prediction of wastewater treatment plants(WWTPs) influent quality can provide valuable decision-making support to facilitate operations and management.However,since existing methods overlook the data noise generated from harsh operations and instruments,while the local feature pattern and long-term dependency in the wastewater quality time series,the prediction performance can be degraded.In this paper,a discrete wavelet transform and convolutional enhanced Transformer(DWT-Ce Transformer) method is developed to predict the influent quality in WWTPs.Specifically,we perform multi-scale analysis on time series of wastewater quality using discrete wavelet transform,effectively removing noise while preserving key data characteristics.Further,a tightly coupled convolutional-enhanced Transformer model is devised where convolutional neural network is used to extract local features,and then these local features are combined with Transformer's self-attention mechanism,so that the model can not only capture long-term dependencies,but also retain the sensitivity to local context.In this study,we conduct comprehensive experiments based on the actual data from a WWTP in Shaanxi Province and the simulated data generated by BSM2.The experimental results show that,compared to baseline models,DWT-Ce Transformer can significantly improve the prediction performance of influent COD and NH_(3)-N.Specifically,MSE,MAE,and RMSE improve by 78.7%,79.5%,and 53.8% for COD,and 79.4%,70.2%,and 54.5% for NH_(3)-N.On simulated data,our method shows strong improvements under various weather conditions,especially in dry weather,with MSE,MAE,and RMSE for COD improving by 68.9%,48.0%,and 44.3%,and for NH_(3)-N by 78.4%,54.8%,and 53.2%.展开更多
基金funded by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (2024JCYBMS576)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62366053)。
文摘Accurate prediction of wastewater treatment plants(WWTPs) influent quality can provide valuable decision-making support to facilitate operations and management.However,since existing methods overlook the data noise generated from harsh operations and instruments,while the local feature pattern and long-term dependency in the wastewater quality time series,the prediction performance can be degraded.In this paper,a discrete wavelet transform and convolutional enhanced Transformer(DWT-Ce Transformer) method is developed to predict the influent quality in WWTPs.Specifically,we perform multi-scale analysis on time series of wastewater quality using discrete wavelet transform,effectively removing noise while preserving key data characteristics.Further,a tightly coupled convolutional-enhanced Transformer model is devised where convolutional neural network is used to extract local features,and then these local features are combined with Transformer's self-attention mechanism,so that the model can not only capture long-term dependencies,but also retain the sensitivity to local context.In this study,we conduct comprehensive experiments based on the actual data from a WWTP in Shaanxi Province and the simulated data generated by BSM2.The experimental results show that,compared to baseline models,DWT-Ce Transformer can significantly improve the prediction performance of influent COD and NH_(3)-N.Specifically,MSE,MAE,and RMSE improve by 78.7%,79.5%,and 53.8% for COD,and 79.4%,70.2%,and 54.5% for NH_(3)-N.On simulated data,our method shows strong improvements under various weather conditions,especially in dry weather,with MSE,MAE,and RMSE for COD improving by 68.9%,48.0%,and 44.3%,and for NH_(3)-N by 78.4%,54.8%,and 53.2%.
