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Machine Learning Methods Modeling Carbohydrate-Enriched Cyanobacteria Biomass Production in Wastewater Treatment Systems

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  • Héctor Rodríguez-Rángel

    (Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán, Juan de Dios Bátiz 310 Pte. Col. Guadalupe, Culiacán C.P. 80014, Sinaloa, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Dulce María Arias

    (Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IER-UNAM), Priv. Xochicalco s/n, Col. Centro, Temixco C.P. 62580, Morelos, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Luis Alberto Morales-Rosales

    (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Conacyt-Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia C.P. 58060, Michoacán, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Victor Gonzalez-Huitron

    (Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán, Juan de Dios Bátiz 310 Pte. Col. Guadalupe, Culiacán C.P. 80014, Sinaloa, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Mario Valenzuela Partida

    (Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán, Juan de Dios Bátiz 310 Pte. Col. Guadalupe, Culiacán C.P. 80014, Sinaloa, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Joan García

    (GEMMA—Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Research Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Building D1, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

One-stage production of carbohydrate-enriched microalgae biomass in wastewater is a promising option to obtain biofuels. Understanding the interaction of water quality parameters such as nutrients, carbon, internal carbohydrates, and microbial composition in the culture is crucial for efficient operation and viable large-scale cultivation. Bioprocess models are an essential tool for studying the simultaneous effect of complex factors on carbohydrate accumulation, optimizing the process, and reducing operational costs. In this sense, we use a dataset obtained from an empirical model that analyzed the accumulation of carbohydrates in a single process (simultaneous growth and accumulation) from real wastewater. In this experiment, there were no ideal conditions (limiting nutrient conditions), but rather these limitations are guaranteed by the operating conditions (hydraulic retention times/nutrient or carbon loads). Thus, the model integrates 18 variables that are affected and not only carbohydrates. The effect of these variables directly influences the accumulation of carbohydrates. Therefore, this paper analyzes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to develop a model to forecast biomass production in wastewater treatment systems. Carbohydrates were modeled using five artificial intelligence methods: (1) Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), (2) Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), (3) Long Short-Term Memory Network (LSTMs), (4) K-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), and (5) Random Forest (RF)). The AI methods allow learning how several components interact and if their combinations work faster than building the physical experiments over the same period of time. After comparing the five learning models, the CNN-1D model obtained the best results with an MSE (Mean Squared Error) = 0.0028. This result shows that the model adequately approximates the system’s dynamics.

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  • Héctor Rodríguez-Rángel & Dulce María Arias & Luis Alberto Morales-Rosales & Victor Gonzalez-Huitron & Mario Valenzuela Partida & Joan García, 2022. "Machine Learning Methods Modeling Carbohydrate-Enriched Cyanobacteria Biomass Production in Wastewater Treatment Systems," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-18, March.
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