Ensemble model of wastewater treatment plant based on rich diversity of principal component determining by genetic algorithm for status monitoring

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is a complex process, effective process monitoring can make it stable and prevent the destruction of the ecological environment. Principal component analysis (PCA) has been widely used in process monitoring. However, most PCA-based methods construct a single PCA model using several principal components (PCs), causing loss of information on some faults and less generalization ability of the PCA model. Thus, this study proposed a novel ensemble process monitoring method based on genetic algorithm (GA) for selective diversity of PCs. GA is used to determine a set of principal component subspaces with the greatest diversity as the base models. Bayesian inference is adopted to combine the results of base models into a probability index. Cases study on TE benchmark process and an actual WWTP show the excellent performance of the proposed method compared with several PCA-based methods and the strong generalization ability of the ensemble model.