Research Article

Semiadaptive Fault Diagnosis via Variational Bayesian Mixture Factor Analysis with Application to Wastewater Treatment

Table 1

Selected sensors for process monitoring.

VariablesCommentsSymbol

1Total nitrogen concentration in effluent (mg N/L)TN
2Total chemical oxygen demand in the effluent (mg COD/L)TCOD
3NH4+ + NH3 nitrogen in effluent (mg N/L)
4Suspended solids concentration in effluent (mg SS/L)SS
5Biological oxygen demand concentration in effluent [g COD m−3]BOD
6Suspended solids concentration in influent (mg SS/L)SS
7NH4+ + NH3 nitrogen in influent (mg N/L)
8Oxygen in the third reactor g (−COD)⋅m−3;
9Nitrate and nitrite nitrogen in the third reactor (mg N/L)
10NH4+ + NH3 nitrogen in the third reactor (mg N/L)
11Oxygen in the fifth reactor g (COD)/m3;
12Nitrate and nitrite nitrogen in the fifth reactor (mg N/L)
13NH4+ + NH3 nitrogen in the fifth reactor (mg N/L)
14Flowrate in the third reactor m3/dFlowrate
15Oxygen transfer coefficient in the third reactorKLa
16Flowrate in the fifth reactor m3/dFlowrate