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Prediction of industrial debutanizer column compositions using data-driven ANFIS- and ANN-based approaches

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The work in this paper is based on an industrial debutanizer column in a petroleum refinery located in Malaysia, which produces LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as the top stream and light naphtha as the bottom stream. The controlled outputs, which are the critical product quality to be measured, are the concentrations of the top and the bottom streams. It is required to maintain the product quality for profitability, and recent trends in soft-computing have seen a plethora of methods developed for this purpose. However, due to practical constraints experienced by the plant that limit extensive plant step tests, data available for the development of the soft sensor for this industrial debutanizer column is scarce. Hence, in this paper, a neuro-fuzzy technique (ANFIS) is investigated and compared against the widely used ANN model for the special case of limited training data samples of the industrial debutanizer column. It is observed that in comparison to ANN, ANFIS has better generalization performance and can work well with limited training data samples. From the results, it was observed that the prediction performance of the ANFIS model generally improved the RMSE by approximately 10 times in comparison to that of ANN.

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  1. Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia

    Syeda Anmol Fatima, Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi & Haslinda Zabiri

  2. Centre for Process System Engineering, Institute of Autonomous System, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Nasser Ramli

  3. CO2 Research Center (CO2RES), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Haslinda Zabiri

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

    Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi

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Fatima, S.A., Ramli, N., Taqvi, S.A.A. et al. Prediction of industrial debutanizer column compositions using data-driven ANFIS- and ANN-based approaches. Neural Comput & Applic 33, 8375–8387 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05593-0

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