TY  - EJOU
AU  - Liu, Chia-Hui 
AU  - Cheng, Chen-Chuan 

TI  - Frequency-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Modeling of Multi-Pollutant Dynamics in Industrial Air Quality Systems
T2  - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences

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SN  - 1526-1506

AB  - Industrial air quality forecasting remains challenging due to nonlinear pollutant formation, localized emissions, meteorological variability, and nonstationary spatiotemporal dependencies among monitoring stations. This study proposes FFTGNet, a frequency-aware spatiotemporal graph neural network for multi-pollutant forecasting in industrial air quality systems. It integrates an FFT-guided dominant-period estimation and period-folding module with a temporal-to-spatial graph backbone composed of TemporalGLU and Chebyshev graph convolution. The frequency-guided module reorganizes input sequences into intra-period and inter-period representations, TemporalGLU adaptively filters nonlinear temporal fluctuations and short-term spikes, and ChebGCN propagates information across inter-station spatial dependencies. Experiments were conducted using five years of hourly observations from ten Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations in Yunlin, Taiwan, covering O<sub>3</sub>, CO, PM<sub>10</sub>, meteorological variables, and PMF-derived VOC source features. Compared with conventional baselines and recent spatiotemporal models, including MGCGRU-SAN and AirNN-Adapted, the proposed method achieves the most consistent performance across pollutants and forecasting horizons. For 1 h forecasting, it obtains R<sup>2</sup> values of 0.9509, 0.8574, and 0.8556 for O<sub>3</sub>, CO, and PM<sub>10</sub>, respectively. For O<sub>3</sub>, it further maintains R<sup>2</sup> values of 0.8116 and 0.6797 at the 3 and 6 h horizons, while showing smooth degradation rather than abrupt performance collapse up to 24 h. Ablation results confirm the complementary contributions of frequency-guided period folding, gated temporal modeling, and graph-based spatial propagation. Computational analysis further indicates that FFTGNet remains feasible for server-side near-real-time deployment, with an inference latency of 71.7 ms per sample. These results demonstrate that coupling frequency-domain priors with spatiotemporal graph learning improves forecasting accuracy, stability, and applicability for industrial multi-pollutant air quality systems.
KW  - Frequency-aware learning; spatiotemporal graph models; multi-pollutant; industrial air quality systems; fast fourier transform

DO  - 10.32604/cmes.2026.083813