联合估计异常检测方法的水处理控制.pdf..docVIP

Environmental Modeling and Assessment 6: 77–82, 2001. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Water treatment control using the joint estimation outlier detection method Christine Wright a,? and David Booth b a Department of Management, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA E-mail: cwright@email.wcu.edu b Administrative Sciences Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA The loss of contaminated wastewater into the environment by leakage or other means is a serious problem. This problem is essentially the same as true of the loss of chemical reagents from a chemical production or purification process. The present article shows how the joint estimation method, an outlier detection method for time series analysis, can be used by a facility manager to deal with these problems. Keywords: joint estimation, outlier detection, process control, wastewater control 1. Introduction In many industries, it is important to determine when the process is out-of-control, (i.e., when significant adverse process changes occur). The idea is to discover these ad-verse process changes while they are still relatively minor, before substandard product or significant pollution is pro-duced. One example of an important chemical process con-trol problem is wastewater treatment. This paper discusses the use of a process control method for the purpose of monitoring wastewater data. The objective of the research was to determine if the out-of-control observations (i.e., abnormal states) could be detected by JE in the period when they first occurred. The process control method reported herein can be used for any compound for which an analytical chemical detection method exists. The method that we consider, Joint Estimation (JE), has the potential to be extremely important to both general pollution control and statistical process con-trol. 2. Background It has been previously shown that pollution producing situations may be recognized through the de