Applying Kohonen Self-Organizing Map as a Software Sensor to Predict Biochemical Oxygen Demand

From: Water Environment Research | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Adeloye, Adebayo J; Scholz, Miklas; Rustum, Rabee | Copyright information

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The 5 days at 20°C biochemical oxygen demand (BOD^sub 5^) is an important parameter for monitoring organic pollution in water and assessing the biotreatability of wastewater. Moreover, BOD^sub 5^ is used for wastewater treatment plant discharge consents and other water pollution control purposes. However, the traditional bioassay method for estimating the BOD^sub 5^ involves the incubation of sample water for 5 days. It follows that BOD^sub 5^ is not available for real-time ...

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