Experimental Study and neural network modeling for prediction of refractive index of pure and binary alcohol mixtures

Document Type : Chemistry Article

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1 Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Babol Noshiravani University of Technology

2 Faculty of Chemical Eng., Babol Noshiravani University of Technology

Abstract

In this study, the refractive index of pure alcohols and binary alcohol mixtures were investigated experimentally and theoretically. In the experimental approach, a refractometer was used to measure the refractive index of the samples. Aa artificial neural network in form of a multilayer perceptron was also used to model and predict the measured refractive data. The input parameters of the network included temperature, molecular weight, the group contributions of CH3, CH2 and OH for the pure materials and for the binary mixtures the additional parameters of mole fractions, molecular weight and group contributions of both components have to be considered. The refractive index of the pure or binary alcohol mixture consist the only output parameter of the network. 70% of the experimental data were considered for train, 15% for test and 15% for the validation of the neural network. The optimum neural architecture for the pure compounds consisted of 10 neurons in the hidden layer with 0.08457 mean absolute relative error and the optimum network for binary mixtures consisted of 12 neurons in the hidden layer with 0.07121 absolute relative error. Comparison of the results showed a good agreement between the experimental data and the neural network outputs and the high accuracy of the model.

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Journal of Modeling in Engineering
Volume 17, Issue 56
April 2019
Pages 375-387

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  • Receive Date: 05 May 2018
  • Revise Date: 01 June 2018
  • Accept Date: 13 June 2018

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