Abstract:Effluent chemical oxygen demand (COD) and effluent suspended solid (SS) are important quality indicators of papermaking wastewater treatment process. To improve the prediction performance of these two indicators, a random forest (RF) model was proposed and implemented regressing forecasting using R. Compared with the conventional models including partial least squares (PLS), support vector regression (SVR), and artificial neural network (ANN), the RF model had the advantages of high prediction accuracy, small error, better generalization perforamce, and fewer parameters adjustment. In terms of the effluent COD prediction, the correlation coefficient r value of RF was 0.7954, which increased by 8.88%, 10.73%, and 14.68% compared with PLS, SVR, and ANN, respectively. In terms of the effluent SS prediction, the r value of RF was 0.8551, which increased by 15.43%, 24.25% and 30.79% compared with PLS, SVR, and ANN, respectively. |