Water treatment facilities face new challenges with regard to maintaining disinfectants as well as reducing disinfection by-products(DBPs). The need to control DBPs in water treatment facilities has stimulated the development of various models includi...
Water treatment facilities face new challenges with regard to maintaining disinfectants as well as reducing disinfection by-products(DBPs). The need to control DBPs in water treatment facilities has stimulated the development of various models including empirical models, kinetic based models, and artificial neural networks (ANN). In order to evaluate the appropriate models for simulating DBPs, several attempts have been made to compare an empirical based model and ANN simulations using bench-scale experiment data. The empirical based model is considered a powerful modeling tool in simulating DBPs. ANN Simulation also provides a potential modeling tool in predicting DBP formation. The external evaluation of these models is further needed by using full-scale monitoring data.