Prediction of selected biodiesel fuel properties using artificial neural network
Received date: 24 Dec 2014
Accepted date: 03 Apr 2015
Published date: 04 Nov 2015
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Biodiesel is an alternative fuel to replace fossil-based diesel fuel. It has fuel properties similar to diesel which are generally determined experimentally. The experimental determination of various properties of biodiesel is costly, time consuming and a tedious process. To solve these problems, artificial neural network (ANN) has been considered as a vital tool for estimating the fuel properties of biodiesel, especially from its fatty acid (FA) composition. In this study, four ANNs have been designed and trained to predict the cetane number (CN), flash point (FP), kinematic viscosity (KV) and density of biodiesel using ANN with logsig and purelin transfer functions in the hidden layer of all the networks. The five most prevalent FAs from 55 feedstocks found in the literature utilized as the input parameters for the model are palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids except for density network with a sixth parameter (temperature). Other FAs that are present in the biodiesels have been considered based on the number of carbon atom chains and the level of saturation. From this study, the prediction accuracy and the average absolute deviation of the networks are CN (96.69%; 1.637%), KV (95.80%; 1.638%), FP (99.07%; 0.997%) and density (99.40%; 0.101%). These values are reasonably better compared to previous studies on empirical correlations and ANN predictions of these fuel properties found in literature. Hence, the present study demonstrates the ability of ANN model to predict fuel properties of biodiesel with high accuracy.
Key words: biodiesel; fuel properties; artificial neural network; fatty acid; prediction
Solomon O. GIWA , Sunday O. ADEKOMAYA , Kayode O. ADAMA , Moruf O. MUKAILA . Prediction of selected biodiesel fuel properties using artificial neural network[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2015 , 9(4) : 433 -445 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-015-0383-5
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