| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M94748/01 |
| Title: |
ON-LINE MONITORING OF WASTEWATER BOD USING A SENSOR ARRAY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Stuetz, Professor R |
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Sch of Industrial and Manufacturing Scie |
| Organisation: |
Cranfield University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
04 October 1999 |
Ends: |
03 October 2002 |
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52,596
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The real-time monitoring of discharge effluents is an unresolved problem in wastewater treatment. At present, the most common method (BOD test) used to define wastewater and treatment efficiency has many inadequacies, the time required, the difficulty in achieving reproducible results and they need to be based on sample collection and retrospective analysis. There is therefore considerable impetus to develop a BOD monitoring technique that is reproducible, on-line and in real-time.This programme aims to study the application of using a sensor array, so called electronic nose for on-line monitoring of wastewater BOD, with the view to develop a real-time monitoring technique for measuring the biodegradable organic content of wastewater. The work will design and test an on-line sampling system for the headspace analysis of wastewater and will investigate the effects that time-related changes have on the responses patterns of a sensor array, so as to gain an understanding of how environmental and/or other seasonal factors effect the relationships between sensor array patterns and wastewater quality parameters. A range of data processing techniques, such as neural networks will be employed to determine the most suitable analysis protocol for identifying and/or predicting changes in the biodegradable content of the wastewater effluents.
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http://www.cranfield.ac.uk |