Optimizing mixture properties of biodiesel production using genetic algorithm-based evolutionary support vector machine |
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Authors: | Min-Yuan Cheng Yi-Hsu Ju Yu-Wei Wu Sylviana Sutanto |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan;2. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Nowadays, biodiesel is used as one of the alternative renewable energy due to the increasing energy demand. However, optimum production of biodiesel still requires a huge number of expensive and time-consuming laboratory tests. To address the problem, this research develops a novel Genetic Algorithm-based Evolutionary Support Vector Machine (GA-ESIM). The GA-ESIM is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tool that combines K-means Chaotic Genetic Algorithm (KCGA) and Evolutionary Support Vector Machine Inference Model (ESIM). The ESIM is utilized as a supervised learning technique to establish a highly accurate prediction model between the input--output of biodiesel mixture properties; and the KCGA is used to perform the simulation to obtain the optimum mixture properties based on the prediction model. A real biodiesel experimental data is provided to validate the GA-ESIM performance. Our simulation results demonstrate that the GA-ESIM establishes a prediction model with better accuracy than other AI-based tool and thus obtains the mixture properties with the biodiesel yield of 99.9%, higher than the best experimental data record, 97.4%. |
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Keywords: | Biodiesel production evolutionary support vector machine genetic algorithm in situ process rice bran |
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