ArticleHeliyon2023
Implementation of an electronic nose for real -time identification of odour emission peaks at a wastewater treatment plant.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
This paper proposes a novel approach for the real-time monitoring of odour emissions from a WasteWater Treatment Plant (WWTP) using an Instrumental Odour Monitoring System (IOMS). The plant is characterized by unpredictable odour peaks at its arrival tank (AT), generating nuisance and complaints in the population living nearby the plant. Odour peaks are most likely due to the conferment of non-identified and malodorous wastewaters coming from various industrial activities. Due to the high variability of sources collecting their wastewaters to the WWTP, a new methodology to train the IOMS, based on the use of a one-class classifier (OCC), has been exploited. The OCC enables to detect deviations from a "Normal Operating Region" (NOR), defined as to include odour concentrations levels unlikely to cause nuisance in the citizenship. Such deviations from the NOR thus should be representative of the odour peaks. The results obtained prove that the IOMS is able to detect real-time alterations of odour emissions from the AT with an accuracy on independent validation data of about 90% (CI
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