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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Data Science
  • Water Resource Management

Background:

  • Water source contamination poses significant risks to public health and ecosystems.
  • Effective and timely detection of contamination events is crucial for mitigation and response.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and assess a data-driven framework for early detection of contamination events in water sources.
  • To utilize multivariate water quality time series and canonical correlation analysis for robust event identification.

Main Methods:

  • A general framework integrating a data-driven estimation model was employed.
  • Sequential canonical correlation coefficients were updated using multivariate water quality time series.
  • Canonical correlation analysis was used to study the interplay between water quality parameters.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method detected a contamination event within 1 minute of acrylamide introduction (1.600 mg l(-1)).
  • With optimized parameters, the method achieved 97.50% detection accuracy for contamination events.
  • The model demonstrated no false alarms, indicating high specificity.

Conclusions:

  • The developed data-driven framework offers a reliable approach for real-time water contamination event detection.
  • The method's robustness is supported by the Bauer-Fike theorem, ensuring dependable performance in water quality monitoring.