Benchmarking to achieve world class performance is becoming an increasingly popular technique in all business sectors. In this paper, we benchmark wastewater treatment process control practice against other process industry sectors in Australia, and provide an evaluation of the general level of process control in the wastewater treatment industry. The benchmarking is based on criteria developed by ICI Engineering. We also present a quantitative statistical tool which can be used for performing a benefits analysis.
Over a 12 month period F-specific bacteriophages, faecal coliforms and enterococci were compared as microbial indicator organisms for the quality of a wastewater treatment (oxidation pond) system. Results suggest that enterococci may be the most useful indicator for oxidation pond systems.
Enhanced classification based on probabilistic extreme learning machine in wastewater treatment process