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An intelligent approach to evaluate drilling performance

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In this paper, an attempt has been made to predict the rate of penetration (ROP) of rocks by incorporating thrust, revolutions per minute (rpm), flushing media and compressive strength of rocks using artificial neural network (ANN) technique. A three-layer feed-forward back-propagation neural network with 4-7-1 architecture was trained using 472 experimental data sets of sandstone, limestone, rock phosphate, dolomite, marble and quartz-chlorite-schist rocks. A total of 146 new data sets were used for the testing and comparison of the ROP by ANN. Multivariate regression analysis (MVRA) has also been done with same data sets of ANN. ANN and MVRA results were compared based on coefficient of determination (CoD) and mean absolute error (MAE) between experimental and predicted values of ROP. The coefficient of determination by ANN was 0.985, while coefficient of determination was 0.629 for rate of penetration. The mean absolute error (MAE) for rate of penetration by ANN was 0.3547, whereas MAE by MVRA was 1.7499.

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Bhatnagar, A., Khandelwal, M. An intelligent approach to evaluate drilling performance. Neural Comput & Applic 21, 763–770 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-010-0457-6

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