Artificially strengthened filter bed is an innovative wastewater treatment technology based on the coupling of eco-contact oxidation filters and artificial wetlands purification mechanism.By small scale laboratory equ...Artificially strengthened filter bed is an innovative wastewater treatment technology based on the coupling of eco-contact oxidation filters and artificial wetlands purification mechanism.By small scale laboratory equipment,the effects of cascade aeration,filter type,filter clogging and other ecological factors on the operation effect of artificial filter bed were studied.As indicated by the results,the pretreatment of cascade aeration had obvious effect and could satisfy the oxygen requirements of artificially strengthened ecological filter bed.Through the analysis on the purification results of volcanic and gravel filter,the effluent quality of volcanic filter was better than that of gravel filter.With the advantages of low operations costs and good effluent quality,the artificially strengthened ecological filter bed has great value to be popularized in North China.展开更多
An extensive database (946 measurements) for the frequency of pulsing flow in trickle beds was established by collecting the experimental results published over past 30 years. A new correlation based on artificial neu...An extensive database (946 measurements) for the frequency of pulsing flow in trickle beds was established by collecting the experimental results published over past 30 years. A new correlation based on artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the pulsation frequency was developed. Seven dimensionless numbers (groups) employed in the proposed correlation were liquid and gas Reynolds, liquid Weber, liquid Eotvos, gas Froude, and gas Stokes numbers and a bed correction factor. The comparisons of performance reported in the of literature and present correlations show that ANN correlation is a significant improvement in predicting pulsation frequency with an average absolute relative error (AARE) of 10% and a standard deviation less than 18%.展开更多
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic programming (GP) have recently been used for the estimation of hydraulic data. In this study, they were used as alternative tools to estimate the characteristics of hy...Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic programming (GP) have recently been used for the estimation of hydraulic data. In this study, they were used as alternative tools to estimate the characteristics of hydraulic jumps, such as the free surface location and energy dissipation. The dimensionless hydraulic parameters, including jump depth, jump length, and energy dissipation, were determined as functions of the Froude number and the height and length of corrugations. The estimations of the ANN and GP models were found to be in good agreement with the measured data. The results of the ANN model were compared with those of the GP model, showing that the proposed ANN models are much more accurate than the GP models.展开更多
Fluidization of non-spherical particles is very common in petroleum engineering.Understanding the complex phenomenon of non-spherical particle flow is of great significance.In this paper,coupled with two-fluid model,t...Fluidization of non-spherical particles is very common in petroleum engineering.Understanding the complex phenomenon of non-spherical particle flow is of great significance.In this paper,coupled with two-fluid model,the drag coefficient correlation based on artificial neural network was applied in the simulations of a bubbling fluidized bed filled with non-spherical particles.The simulation results were compared with the experimental data from the literature.Good agreement between the experimental data and the simulation results reveals that the modified drag model can accurately capture the interaction between the gas phase and solid phase.Then,several cases of different particles,including tetrahedron,cube,and sphere,together with the nylon beads used in the model validation,were employed in the simulations to study the effect of particle shape on the flow behaviors in the bubbling fluidized bed.Particle shape affects the hydrodynamics of non-spherical particles mainly on microscale.This work can be a basis and reference for the utilization of artificial neural network in the investigation of drag coefficient correlation in the dense gas-solid two-phase flow.Moreover,the proposed drag coefficient correlation provides one more option when investigating the hydrodynamics of non-spherical particles in the gas-solid fluidized bed.展开更多
treatability of synthetic sago wastewater was investigated in a laboratory anaerobic tapered fluidized bed reactor (ATFBR) with a mesoporous granular activated carbon (GAC) as a support material. The experimental ...treatability of synthetic sago wastewater was investigated in a laboratory anaerobic tapered fluidized bed reactor (ATFBR) with a mesoporous granular activated carbon (GAC) as a support material. The experimental protocol was defined to examine the effect of the maximum organic loading rate (OLR), hydraulic retention time (HRT), the efficiency of the reactor and to report on its steady- state performance. The reactor was subjected to a steady-state operation over a range of OLR up to 85.44 kg COD/(m^3·d). The COD removal efficiency was found to be 92% in the reactor while the biogas produced in the digester reached 25.38 m^3/(m^3·d) of the reactor. With the increase of OLR from 83.7 kg COD/(m^3·d), the COD removal efficiency decreased. Also an artificial neural network (ANN) model using multilayer perceptron (MLP) has been developed for a system of two input variable and five output dependent variables. For the training of the input-output data, the experimental values obtained have been used. The output parameters predicted have been found to be much closer to the corresponding experimental ones and the model was validated for 30% of the untrained data. The mean square error (MSE) was found to be only 0.0146.展开更多
An on-line prediction scheme combining the Karhunen-Love expansion and a recurrent neural network for a wall-cooled fixed-bed reactor is presented.Benzene oxidation in a pilotscale,single tube fixed-bed reactor is cho...An on-line prediction scheme combining the Karhunen-Love expansion and a recurrent neural network for a wall-cooled fixed-bed reactor is presented.Benzene oxidation in a pilotscale,single tube fixed-bed reactor is chosen as a working system and a pseudo-homogeneous twodimensional model is used to generate simulation data to investigate the prediction scheme presentedunder randomly changing operating conditions.The scheme consisting of the K-L expansion andneural network performs satisfactorily for on-line prediction of reaction yield and bed temperatures.展开更多
Conventional spouted beds have been extensively used in many real-life applications but are not suited for all types of materials, especially fine particles, which require internal devices to improve their motion in t...Conventional spouted beds have been extensively used in many real-life applications but are not suited for all types of materials, especially fine particles, which require internal devices to improve their motion in the spouted bed. However, unlike conventional spouted beds, there are almost no mechanistic or empirical models available for the design of spouted beds with internals. Given the availability of an extensive but not experimentally designed database, the main purpose of this study is to present an analysis of neural networks and empirical models in terms of their suitability to fit and predict average cycle times in conical spouted beds with and without draft tubes. The parameters investigated are particle size, density, contactor angle, gas inlet diameter, static bed height, and draft tube features. Although the amount of information is always a key factor when fitting models, the size of the database used in this study strongly affects the fitting performance of empirical models, whereas artificial neural networks are more influenced by how the data are scaled. Results of model verification show that both techniques are suitable for predicting average cycle times for data outside the range covered by the database.展开更多
Modeling and prediction of bed loads is an important but difficult issue in river engineering.The introduced empirical equations due to restricted applicability even in similar conditions provide different accuracies ...Modeling and prediction of bed loads is an important but difficult issue in river engineering.The introduced empirical equations due to restricted applicability even in similar conditions provide different accuracies with each other and measured data.In this paper,three different artificial neural networks(ANNs)including multilayer percepterons,radial based function(RBF),and generalized feed forward neural network using five dominant parameters of bed load transport formulas for the Main Fork Red River in Idaho-USA were developed.The optimum models were found through 102 data sets of flow discharge,flow velocity,water surface slopes,flow depth,and mean grain size.The deficiency of empirical equations for this river by conducted comparison between measured and predicted values was approved where the ANN models presented more consistence and closer estimation to observed data.The coefficient of determination between measured and predicted values for empirical equations varied from 0.10 to 0.21 against the 0.93 to 0.98 in ANN models.The accuracy performance of all models was evaluated and interpreted using different statistical error criteria,analytical graphs and confusion matrixes.Although the ANN models predicted compatible outputs but the RBF with 79%correct classification rate corresponding to 0.191 nctwork error was outperform than others.展开更多
Pressure drop is an essential parameter in the operation of conical spouted beds(CSB)and depends on its geometric factors and materials used.Irregular materials,like biomass,are complex to treat and,unlike other gas–...Pressure drop is an essential parameter in the operation of conical spouted beds(CSB)and depends on its geometric factors and materials used.Irregular materials,like biomass,are complex to treat and,unlike other gas–solid contact methods,CSB turn out to be a suitable technology for their treatment.Artificial neural networks were used in this study for the prediction of operating and peak pressure drops,and their performance has been compared with that of empirical correlations reported in the literature.Accordingly,a multi-layer perceptron network with backward propagation was used due to its ability to model non-linear multivariate systems.The fitting of the experimental data of both operating and peak pressure drop was significantly better than those reported in the literature,specifically in the case of the peak pressure drop,with R^(2) being 0.92.Therefore,artificial neural networks have been proven suitable for the prediction of pressure drop in CSB.展开更多
基金Supported by Typical Ecological Recovery Technology on Water Pollution(2010BAC68B02)
文摘Artificially strengthened filter bed is an innovative wastewater treatment technology based on the coupling of eco-contact oxidation filters and artificial wetlands purification mechanism.By small scale laboratory equipment,the effects of cascade aeration,filter type,filter clogging and other ecological factors on the operation effect of artificial filter bed were studied.As indicated by the results,the pretreatment of cascade aeration had obvious effect and could satisfy the oxygen requirements of artificially strengthened ecological filter bed.Through the analysis on the purification results of volcanic and gravel filter,the effluent quality of volcanic filter was better than that of gravel filter.With the advantages of low operations costs and good effluent quality,the artificially strengthened ecological filter bed has great value to be popularized in North China.
基金the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (No. G2000048005)the SINOPEC (X503023).
文摘An extensive database (946 measurements) for the frequency of pulsing flow in trickle beds was established by collecting the experimental results published over past 30 years. A new correlation based on artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the pulsation frequency was developed. Seven dimensionless numbers (groups) employed in the proposed correlation were liquid and gas Reynolds, liquid Weber, liquid Eotvos, gas Froude, and gas Stokes numbers and a bed correction factor. The comparisons of performance reported in the of literature and present correlations show that ANN correlation is a significant improvement in predicting pulsation frequency with an average absolute relative error (AARE) of 10% and a standard deviation less than 18%.
文摘Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic programming (GP) have recently been used for the estimation of hydraulic data. In this study, they were used as alternative tools to estimate the characteristics of hydraulic jumps, such as the free surface location and energy dissipation. The dimensionless hydraulic parameters, including jump depth, jump length, and energy dissipation, were determined as functions of the Froude number and the height and length of corrugations. The estimations of the ANN and GP models were found to be in good agreement with the measured data. The results of the ANN model were compared with those of the GP model, showing that the proposed ANN models are much more accurate than the GP models.
基金the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51706055).
文摘Fluidization of non-spherical particles is very common in petroleum engineering.Understanding the complex phenomenon of non-spherical particle flow is of great significance.In this paper,coupled with two-fluid model,the drag coefficient correlation based on artificial neural network was applied in the simulations of a bubbling fluidized bed filled with non-spherical particles.The simulation results were compared with the experimental data from the literature.Good agreement between the experimental data and the simulation results reveals that the modified drag model can accurately capture the interaction between the gas phase and solid phase.Then,several cases of different particles,including tetrahedron,cube,and sphere,together with the nylon beads used in the model validation,were employed in the simulations to study the effect of particle shape on the flow behaviors in the bubbling fluidized bed.Particle shape affects the hydrodynamics of non-spherical particles mainly on microscale.This work can be a basis and reference for the utilization of artificial neural network in the investigation of drag coefficient correlation in the dense gas-solid two-phase flow.Moreover,the proposed drag coefficient correlation provides one more option when investigating the hydrodynamics of non-spherical particles in the gas-solid fluidized bed.
文摘treatability of synthetic sago wastewater was investigated in a laboratory anaerobic tapered fluidized bed reactor (ATFBR) with a mesoporous granular activated carbon (GAC) as a support material. The experimental protocol was defined to examine the effect of the maximum organic loading rate (OLR), hydraulic retention time (HRT), the efficiency of the reactor and to report on its steady- state performance. The reactor was subjected to a steady-state operation over a range of OLR up to 85.44 kg COD/(m^3·d). The COD removal efficiency was found to be 92% in the reactor while the biogas produced in the digester reached 25.38 m^3/(m^3·d) of the reactor. With the increase of OLR from 83.7 kg COD/(m^3·d), the COD removal efficiency decreased. Also an artificial neural network (ANN) model using multilayer perceptron (MLP) has been developed for a system of two input variable and five output dependent variables. For the training of the input-output data, the experimental values obtained have been used. The output parameters predicted have been found to be much closer to the corresponding experimental ones and the model was validated for 30% of the untrained data. The mean square error (MSE) was found to be only 0.0146.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.29676014)and others.
文摘An on-line prediction scheme combining the Karhunen-Love expansion and a recurrent neural network for a wall-cooled fixed-bed reactor is presented.Benzene oxidation in a pilotscale,single tube fixed-bed reactor is chosen as a working system and a pseudo-homogeneous twodimensional model is used to generate simulation data to investigate the prediction scheme presentedunder randomly changing operating conditions.The scheme consisting of the K-L expansion andneural network performs satisfactorily for on-line prediction of reaction yield and bed temperatures.
文摘Conventional spouted beds have been extensively used in many real-life applications but are not suited for all types of materials, especially fine particles, which require internal devices to improve their motion in the spouted bed. However, unlike conventional spouted beds, there are almost no mechanistic or empirical models available for the design of spouted beds with internals. Given the availability of an extensive but not experimentally designed database, the main purpose of this study is to present an analysis of neural networks and empirical models in terms of their suitability to fit and predict average cycle times in conical spouted beds with and without draft tubes. The parameters investigated are particle size, density, contactor angle, gas inlet diameter, static bed height, and draft tube features. Although the amount of information is always a key factor when fitting models, the size of the database used in this study strongly affects the fitting performance of empirical models, whereas artificial neural networks are more influenced by how the data are scaled. Results of model verification show that both techniques are suitable for predicting average cycle times for data outside the range covered by the database.
基金The authors greatly expressed their appreciate to Dr.Abbas Abbaszadeh Shahri for his expert advice and encouragement through this study.
文摘Modeling and prediction of bed loads is an important but difficult issue in river engineering.The introduced empirical equations due to restricted applicability even in similar conditions provide different accuracies with each other and measured data.In this paper,three different artificial neural networks(ANNs)including multilayer percepterons,radial based function(RBF),and generalized feed forward neural network using five dominant parameters of bed load transport formulas for the Main Fork Red River in Idaho-USA were developed.The optimum models were found through 102 data sets of flow discharge,flow velocity,water surface slopes,flow depth,and mean grain size.The deficiency of empirical equations for this river by conducted comparison between measured and predicted values was approved where the ANN models presented more consistence and closer estimation to observed data.The coefficient of determination between measured and predicted values for empirical equations varied from 0.10 to 0.21 against the 0.93 to 0.98 in ANN models.The accuracy performance of all models was evaluated and interpreted using different statistical error criteria,analytical graphs and confusion matrixes.Although the ANN models predicted compatible outputs but the RBF with 79%correct classification rate corresponding to 0.191 nctwork error was outperform than others.
基金This work was carried out with the funds to the Universidad de los Andes the Early-Stage Research Found-FAPA(P3.2017.3830)This work was carried out with financial support from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Universidad de los Andes,Spain's Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness(CTQ2016-75535-R(AEI/FEDER,UE)+4 种基金the University of the Basque Country,UPV/EHU(US18/12)the European Commission(HORIZON H2020-MSCA RISE-2018.Contract No.823745)Y.Cruz thanks the funds to the Universidad de los Andes the Early-Stage Research Found-FAPA(P3.2017.3830)I.Estiati thanks the University of the Basque Country for her postgraduate grant(ESPDOC18/14)M.Tellabide thanks the Spain's Ministry of Education,Cultureand Sportforhis Ph.D.grant(FPU14/05814).
文摘Pressure drop is an essential parameter in the operation of conical spouted beds(CSB)and depends on its geometric factors and materials used.Irregular materials,like biomass,are complex to treat and,unlike other gas–solid contact methods,CSB turn out to be a suitable technology for their treatment.Artificial neural networks were used in this study for the prediction of operating and peak pressure drops,and their performance has been compared with that of empirical correlations reported in the literature.Accordingly,a multi-layer perceptron network with backward propagation was used due to its ability to model non-linear multivariate systems.The fitting of the experimental data of both operating and peak pressure drop was significantly better than those reported in the literature,specifically in the case of the peak pressure drop,with R^(2) being 0.92.Therefore,artificial neural networks have been proven suitable for the prediction of pressure drop in CSB.