Development of an Improved Pollution Source Identification Model Using Numerical and ANN Based Simulation-Optimization Model

Triptimoni Borah and Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya ()
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Triptimoni Borah: Department of Civil Eng., Assam Engineering College
Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2016, vol. 30, issue 14, No 12, 5163-5176

Abstract: Abstract The identification of unknown pollution sources is an important and challenging task for the engineers working on pollution management of a groundwater aquifer. The locations and transient magnitude of unknown contaminant sources can be identified using inverse optimization technique. In this approach, the absolute difference between the simulated and the observed contaminant concentration at the observation locations of the aquifer is minimized by using an optimization algorithm. The simulated concentrations is calculated using the aquifer simulation model. As such, there is a need to incorporate the aquifer simulation model with the optimization model. Thus the performance of the model is highly related to the aquifer simulation model. The incorporation of the sophisticated numerical simulation model will give better performance, but the model will be computationally expensive. On the other hand, the model will be computationally less expensive if an approximate simulation model is used in place of the numerical simulation model. However, in this case, the predictive performance of the model will decline. For achieving efficiency in both computational time as well as in predicting the performance, this study presents a new genetic algorithms based simulation-optimization method incorporating both the numerical and the approximate simulation models. The efficiency and field applicability of the model is demonstrated using illustrative study areas. The performance evaluation of the model shows that the proposed model has the potential for real-world field applications.

Keywords: Pollution sources; Groundwater management; Optimization methods; Simulation-optimization; Genetic algorithms; Artificial neural networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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