期刊名称：International Journal of Energy and Environment
印刷版ISSN：2076-2895
电子版ISSN：2076-2909
出版年度：2018
卷号：9
期号：4
页码：1-12
出版社：International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
摘要：Soil erosion is one of the most important natural resources management problems in the world and the
source of sediment that pollutes streams, fills reservoirs, and causes dramatic impact to the aquatic ecosystem.
Urbanisation is one of the significant agents of sediment generation due to soil disturbance and
rainfall events. To capture the sediment generated from the construction before impacting the surrounding
environment, a well-designed sediment basin is required. The use of knowledge-based systems has been
significantly recognized as a way to combine scientific understanding of the process of the natural world
with the heuristic rules developed by managers through observation and experience. In this paper, a rulebased
decision support system has been developed for designing the dry and wet sediment basins for
Malaysian construction sites using Visual Basic Tool. The design which is based on local studies and
guidelines includes sizing the basin, sizing of emergency spillway, calculating the sediment basin trapping
efficiency and maintenance frequency for both of the dry and wet basin. Preliminary validation, field
validation and Turing test were applied for validating the developed system in which the results from this
study showed that both of the system and the expert's opinions are almost matching which denotes that the
system is intelligent and behaves like a human expert. The system can be considered as a "green
technology" tool since it minimizes environmental impact.
