Michael Bongards

899 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 690 citations indexed

About

Michael Bongards is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Pollution and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bongards has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 690 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Building and Construction, 9 papers in Pollution and 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Bongards's work include Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (10 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (9 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (7 papers). Michael Bongards is often cited by papers focused on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (10 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (9 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (7 papers). Michael Bongards collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ireland and United Kingdom. Michael Bongards's co-authors include Christian Wolf, Daniel Gaida, Miguel Mauricio‐Iglesias, Ana Soares, Stefano B. Longo, Almudena Hospido, Antonio M. Chaparro, Juan M. Lema, Francesco Fatone and Seán McLoone and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and Water Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bongards

27 papers receiving 662 citations

Hit Papers

Monitoring and diagnosis of energy consumption in wastewa... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Monitoring and diagnosis of energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants. A state of the art and proposals for improvement
    2016 385 citations Michael Bongards et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Bongards Germany 11 356 225 178 146 92 29 690
Christian Kazadi Mbamba Australia 11 371 1.0× 352 1.6× 372 2.1× 206 1.4× 114 1.2× 15 867
Lorenza Meucci Italy 12 438 1.2× 271 1.2× 169 0.9× 38 0.3× 106 1.2× 18 736
George Skouteris United Kingdom 10 454 1.3× 133 0.6× 191 1.1× 47 0.3× 204 2.2× 16 689
Senthil Kumar Arumugasamy Malaysia 19 248 0.7× 165 0.7× 107 0.6× 80 0.5× 267 2.9× 52 924
C.J. Brouckaert South Africa 12 277 0.8× 121 0.5× 156 0.9× 79 0.5× 132 1.4× 35 561
Xuyao Li China 10 314 0.9× 188 0.8× 131 0.7× 66 0.5× 46 0.5× 18 652
Youn-Kyoo Choung South Korea 14 289 0.8× 119 0.5× 168 0.9× 68 0.5× 109 1.2× 25 622
Darko Vrečko Slovenia 18 421 1.2× 218 1.0× 556 3.1× 110 0.8× 67 0.7× 46 1.0k
E. Ayesa Spain 19 478 1.3× 364 1.6× 578 3.2× 200 1.4× 121 1.3× 59 1.1k
P. Grau Spain 16 301 0.8× 287 1.3× 367 2.1× 123 0.8× 66 0.7× 32 730

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Bongards

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Bongards

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Bongards

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Bongards. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Bongards based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Bongards. Michael Bongards is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2022). Robust state estimation of the anaerobic digestion process for municipal organic waste using an unscented Kalman filter. Journal of Process Control. 121. 50–59. 3 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2020). Eucalyptus Kraft Lignin as an Additive Strongly Enhances the Mechanical Resistance of Tree-Leaf Pellets. Processes. 8(3). 376–376. 5 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2019). Determining Conditions of Intermittently Fed Digesters from Biogas Production Rate Data. Chemical Engineering & Technology. 43(1). 19–28. 1 indexed citations
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Gaida, Daniel, Christian Wolf, & Michael Bongards. (2016). Feed control of anaerobic digestion processes for renewable energy production: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 68. 869–875. 86 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2014). Intelligent automation and IT for the optimization of renewable energy and wastewater treatment processes. Energy Sustainability and Society. 4(1). 10 indexed citations
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Wolf, Christian, et al.. (2014). COD and NH<inf>4</inf>-N estimation in the inflow of Wastewater Treatment Plants using Machine Learning Techniques. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1890. 812–817. 4 indexed citations
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Gaida, Daniel, Christian Wolf, Thomas Bäck, & Michael Bongards. (2014). Multi-objective nonlinear model predictive substrate feed control of a biogas plant. ePublications (Technical University of Cologne). 1 indexed citations
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Gaida, Daniel, Christian Wolf, Craig H. Meyer, et al.. (2012). State estimation for anaerobic digesters using the ADM1. Water Science & Technology. 66(5). 1088–1095. 30 indexed citations
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Gaida, Daniel, et al.. (2011). Optimal Control of Biogas Plants using NonlinearModel Predictive Control. MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 17 indexed citations
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Gaida, Daniel, et al.. (2011). Optimal Control of Biogas Plants Using Nonlinear MPC. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 4 indexed citations
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Wolf, Christian, et al.. (2011). Self-Organizing Map based operating regime estimation for state based control of wastewater treatment plants. Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University). 390–395. 1 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Thomas, et al.. (2011). Simulation and optimization of an experimental membrane wastewater treatment plant using computational intelligence methods. Water Science & Technology. 63(10). 2255–2260. 10 indexed citations
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Wolf, Christian, Daniel Gaida, André Stuhlsatz, et al.. (2011). Predicting organic acid concentration from UV/vis spectrometry measurements – a comparison of machine learning techniques. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. 35(1). 5–15. 25 indexed citations
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McLoone, Seán, et al.. (2007). Automatic Detection of Process Instabilities in Wastewater Treatment by Principal Component Analysis. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2005). Computational intelligence-based optimisation of wastewater treatment plants. Water Science & Technology. 52(12). 99–104. 5 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (2004). Predictive control of wastewater works by neural networks. 17. 397–402. 1 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael, et al.. (1993). Principles of Operation and Experimental Results for a Small Wastewater Treatment Plant of 300 Population Equivalents. Water Science & Technology. 28(10). 387–392. 3 indexed citations
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Bongards, Michael. (1984). Der Einfluß von Teilchengröße und Polydispersität auf die Elektrolytstabilität emulgatorfreier Polystyrollatices. Forschung im Ingenieurwesen. 50(5). 159–159. 1 indexed citations

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