Modelling and simulation in the field of waste management

Abstract

This bachelor thesis is focused on the application of multilayer perceptron net for modelling the technolgical units of waste-to-energy facility ZEVO Malesice. It was specifically created to model the amount of steam generated in steam-boilers and to quantify the consumpion of steam by an external subject. Firstly, the basics of neuron theory are presented. In the following, a Statistica artificial neural network module is described. This module was used to develop the neural network models. The models appearing in practical section were created with the use of STATISTICA software. Last chapter deals with detailed description of the developed models and their comparison with simple linear and nonlinear regression models. Last but not least, the description of a software providing easy implementation of neural network models into Visual Basic for Application programming language is presented