화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.31, No.4, 493-500, 2008
Estimating the bubble point pressure and formation volume factor of oil using Artificial Neural Networks
The phase performance of hydrocarbons is a very complicated behavior that hydrocarbons show at the time of phase change or when they remain in a particular phase. Process design is almost impossible without a good understanding of this behavior. Artificial Neural Networks have been widely utilized for engineering applications during the last two decades. Two models are presented for the prediction of the bubble point pressure and the oil formation volume factor for hydrocarbon mixtures using the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) approach. For this purpose, five-layer neural networks were designed and trained using 106 experimental data points. After the training step, 9 experimental data points were also used for the model evaluation step and as a reliability check. The output of the models for both the training and predicted data are compared with the empirical equations of Standing, Glaso and Marhoun. It is concluded that the ANNs approach has an excellent capability for these purposes compared to the conventional methods.