Optimizing wastewater treatment plant operations: a machine learning approach for energy consumption and climate dynamics analysis

Abstract

Treatment plant optimization plays an important role in the implementation of eco-problem solutions. This article is going to cover how machine learning algorithms can determine energy consumption, climate, and wastewater features of electricity at a wastewater treatment plant in eastern Melbourne from 2014 to 2019. This study uses data obtained from the Melbourne Water and Airport weather station, which are freely available to carry out MLPRegressor, SVM, Linear Regression, Decision Tree Regression, random forest regression, and Nearest Neighbor. Through customary measures like MSE, RMSE, EVS, and others, the best model is adequately identified, which is the Random Forest Regressor model, which has 0.889285. (Lowest MSE) With these results, the plant treatment optimization processes, such as sampling for environmental analysis and the control of energy consumption, have improved.