The meanwhile, wastewater treatment plant(WWTP) has been recognized as a facility that consumes a lot of energy. Besides, most of the WWTPs have been operated in the excessive operation conditions in order to maintain stable wastewater treatment. Ther...
The meanwhile, wastewater treatment plant(WWTP) has been recognized as a facility that consumes a lot of energy. Besides, most of the WWTPs have been operated in the excessive operation conditions in order to maintain stable wastewater treatment. Therefore in this study, energy consumption conditions diagnosis and prediction technique were developed using multivariate statistical techniques for efficient energy consumption in the WWTP. First, diagnose qualitative of energy consumption in the WWTP was applied by multivariate statistical techniques such as PCA(Principal Component Analysis), K-means clustering analysis and discriminant function. The diagnosis results of energy consumption conditions were classified into three groups: High energy consumption; Medium energy consumption; and Low energy consumption. In case of high-energy consumption groups(High, Medium), new operating conditions was applied for energy saving. New operation conditions was derived from simulation within effluent water criterion. Secondarily, prediction model was developed using multiple regression analysis to predict the energy consumption of the WWTP. The R2 value in the regression analysis appeared 67%, and performance of the electric power prediction model had less than ±5% error. Finally, Electric power in new operation conditions at WWTP and electric power in traditional operation conditions at WWTP were compared by predicted model. As a result, high-energy consumption groups result in more energy saving-efficient than low-energy consumption groups and can be economized 1,077 kwh/day averagely.
For energy saving in WWTP, diagnosis and prediction models of energy consumption conditions was developed using multivariate statistical analysis techniques. To utilize these techniques is expected to contribute to the efficient operation of the WWTP.