Prediction of the Point Efficiency of Sieve Tray Using Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

An application of neural network technique was introduced in modeling the point efficiency of sieve tray, based on a
data bank of around 33l data points collected from the open literature.Two models proposed,using back-propagation
algorithm, the first model network consists: volumetric liquid flow rate (QL), F foctor for gas (FS), liquid density (pL),
gas density (pg), liquid viscosity (pL), gas viscosity (pg), hole diameter (dH), weir height (hw), pressure (P) and surface
tension between liquid phase and gas phase (o). In the second network, there are six parameters as dimensionless
group: Flowfactor (F), Reynolds number for liquid (ReL), Reynolds number for gas through hole (Reg), ratio of weir
height to hole diqmeter (hw/dH), ratio of pressure of process to atmosphere pressure (P/Pa), Weber number (lTe).
Statistical analysis showed that the proposed models have an average absolute relative error (AARE) of 9.3% and
standard deviation (SD) of 9.7%for first model, AARE of 9.35% and SD of 10.5%for second model and AARE of 9.8%
and SD of 7.5% for the third model.