Graph embedding-based intelligent industrial decision for complex sewage treatment processes

Guo, Z, Shen, Y, Bashir, AK, Yu, K and Lin, JCW (2022) Graph embedding-based intelligent industrial decision for complex sewage treatment processes. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 37 (12). pp. 10423-10441. ISSN 0884-8173

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Abstract

Intelligent algorithms-driven industrial decision systems have been a general demand for modeling complex sewage treatment processes (STP). Existing researches modeled complex STP with the use of various neural network models, yet neglecting the fact that latent and occasional relations exist inside complex STP. To deal with the challenge, this paper proposes graph embedding-based intelligent industrial decision for complex STP (GE-STP). The graph embedding (GE) scheme is employed to enhance feature extraction and neural computing structure is utilized to simulate uncertain biochemical transformation inside STP. The introduction of GE can not only improves the fineness of feature spaces, but also improves the representative ability of models towards complex industrial processes. On this basis, the GE-STP is evaluated on a real-world data set collected from a realistic sewage treatment plant equipped with a set of Internet of Things devices. And some typical neural network models that have been utilized for modeling complex STP, are selected as baseline methods. Three groups of experiments show that efficiency of the GE-STP exceeds baselines about 6%–12%, and that the GE-STP is not susceptible to parameter changing.