Gross Solids Content Prediction in Urban WWTPs Using SVM

The preliminary treatment of wastewater at plants (WWTPs) is great importance for the performance and durability these plants. One fraction that removed this initial stage commonly called gross solids can cause various operational, downstream performance, or maintenance problems. To avoid this, data from more than two operation years Villapérez Wastewater Treatment Plant, located in northeast city Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), were collected used to develop a model predicts content reaches plant. support vector machine (SVM) method was modelling. achieved precision (Radj2 = 0.7 MSE 0.43) allows early detection trend changes arrival will improve plant operations by avoiding blockages overflows. results obtained indicate it possible predict as function selected input variables. This prevent suffering operational problems discharges untreated actions could be taken, such starting up pretreatment lines emptying containers.