AUTHOR=Ye Binqiang , Cao Xuejie , Liu Hong , Wang Yong , Tang Bin , Chen Changhong , Chen Qing 

TITLE=Water chemical oxygen demand prediction model based on the CNN and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Environmental Science

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1027693

DOI=10.3389/fenvs.2022.1027693

ISSN=2296-665X

ABSTRACT=Excessive levels of organic matter in water threaten ecological safety and endanger human health. As the water resources environment is deteriorating, accurate and rapid determination of water quality parameters has become a current research hotspot. In recent years, the ultraviolet spectrometry method has been more widely used in the detection of chemical oxygen demand (COD), which is convenient and without chemical reagents. However, this method tends to use absorbance at 254 nm to measure COD. It has a good detection effect when the composition of pollutants is single, but in real life, the complex composition of pollutants will seriously affect the accuracy of measurement. Therefore, a COD prediction model based on ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrometry and convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed. Compared with other traditional COD prediction models, this model makes more full use of the absorbance of all ultraviolet and visible wavelengths, avoiding the information loss caused by using specific wavelengths. Meanwhile, this model is constructed based on shallow CNN, using convolutional layers with different step lengths instead of the traditional pooling layers, which reduces computation and enhances the capture of spectral feature peaks. Additionally, with the powerful feature extraction capability of CNN, this model reduces the reliance on pre-processing methods and improves the utilization of spectral information. Experiments have shown that our model has better fitting results and accuracy compared with other traditional COD prediction models such as principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares regression (PLSR), Back Propagation (BP) neural network, which provides a better solution for improving the accuracy of COD detection.