Teaching your treatment works to be smarter

摘要

Q. Why do we need intelligent decision solutions like neural networks? RC: "Across the industry, especially in the UK, there is a drive to do more with less. Utilities want to cut leakage and pollution incidents, as well as reduce costs. Optimising the operation of treatment works is one key area where energy and chemical consumption can be reduced substantially. Intelligent decision solutions, such as artificial neural networks, can help wastewater facilities operate more efficiently, while ensuring that they still meet, or even improve, effluent quality levels. "Put simply, AI in wastewater is about using the reams of data that are already at operators' fingertips to learn the plant's patterns - and use that information to move from a reactive to a proactive way of working."