UTILIZATION OF ANNS FOR “MODELING THE MODEL” OF UASB

Environmental Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt.

The existence of strong non-linearity effects, time variant parameters and multivariable

coupling don’t enable the adoption of simple models to predict either the wastewater

treatment processes efficiency or its effluent quality. Nowadays, an Artificial Neural

data. Especially where processes are complex, the applications of ANNs are widespread and

vary from process optimization for water and wastewater treatment, scenario evaluation,

demand forecasting, on-line steering of wastewater treatment plants and sewage systems,

resource optimization and management up to financial modeling.

Besides delineating the approach and methodology for the development of successful ANNs

quality (BODout and CODout) of the raw domestic sewage effluent from Upflow Anaerobic

network architectures, differing in the number of hidden layers and nodes were tested in order

to find the optimized solution in terms of both precision and learning time. The effectiveness

calibrating, testing, and verifying the developed ANN of UASB model was obtained from the

operation of two identical pilot-scale models simulating UASB reactors that designed,

constructed from PVC pipes, 200 mm diameter and 2500 mm height, and built at Kawmeya

sewage pumping station, Zagazig, Egypt.