Prediction of flooding and pressure drop in a spinning cone column using neural networks

International Journal of Industrial Chemistry

دوره 3، شماره 1، اسفند 2012، صفحه 193-198

نوع مقاله: research article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1186/2228-5547-3-8

نویسندگان

Nasser Saghatoleslami^* ؛ Mohammad Amiri؛ Jamal Rohi Golkhatmi

Department of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, 9177948974, Iran

چکیده

Spinning cone column as a distillation tower has various applications in food industry. It has a complex geometric structure which makes the modeling of liquid and gas regimes in the column rather difficult.In the last decade, artificial neural networks havebeen used in various industries considerably. Unlike empirical correlation, neural network does not requirephysical mechanism which occurs in column. Therefore, in this research the effect of tray speed, pressure drop, cone spacing, and flooding for both small and large scales operation has been examined using artificial neural network. Furthermore, variation of gas and liquid flow rate in an industrial scale spinning cone column has also been evaluated. To obtain this objective, multilayer perceptron structure and Levenberg-Marquart training algorithm has been utilized. The findings of this study reveal that the predictions of this work are much accurate than those obtained from the existing empirical correlation. There also exists a good compatibility between the pressure drop values predicted from the present study and the experimental data in both dry and wet state (normalized bias = 0.00232, mean squared error = 0.0021, and root mean squared error = 0.0021). From the scheme adopted in this work, the spinning cone column capacity at different operating conditions could be estimated more accurately than the exiting correlations.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Flooding؛ Neural networks؛ Multi layer perceptron؛ Spinning cone column