Hot Research Topics and Trends on Intelligent Control for Sewage Treatment in China Based on CiteSpace
To learn the development situation of intelligent control for wastewater treatment in China and find out the hot issues and trends of this research field,1688 research papers that related to the intelligent control for sewage treatment from 1992 to 2022 were retrieved from the database of China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI).Based on bibliometrics,visual analysis on the 1688 papers was conducted with CiteSpace from the aspects of authors,institutions,and keywords,with relevant knowledge maps produced.Results indicated:(1)The research on intelligent control for wastewater treatment in China has underwent the stages of preliminary exploration,rapid development,and fluctuating development,with the fluctuations mainly influenced by sewage management policies.(2)In the field of intelligent control for wastewater treatment processes,Qiao Junfei and Han Honggui from Beijing University of Technology were the most influential in the field and Beijing University of Technology served as a scientific research cluster of intelligent control for wastewater treatment.(3)The hot issues on control technology for wastewater treatment processes mainly included remote monitoring based on Internet of Things(IoT)technology,optimization of soft measurement of water quality parameters with algorithms such as genetic algorithms and particle swarm,as well as fault diagnosis for waste water treatment processes.Neural networks,fuzzy control,and genetic algorithms dominated the intelligent control technologies in sewage treatment.Additionally,intelligent control of dissolved oxygen in the sewage treatment process was an important research topic in this field.