1st International Colloquium

Energy and Environmental Protection

20-21 November 2014 in
Ploiesti/Romania

APPLYING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL

NETWORKS IN GASOLINE FORMULATION.
CASE STUDY
Bogdan Doicin, Ion Onuu, Cristian
Ptrcioiu

NOVEMBER 20TH, 2014

 INTRODUCTION
CASE STUDY
EXPERIMENTAL PART
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CREATING AND
TRAINING

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

CONCLUSIONS

INTRODUCTION
TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION, GASOLINE MUST FULFILL THE
EN228 AND EURO 6 STANDARDS
COMMERCIAL GASOLINE IS OBTAINED BY BLENDING ITS COMPONENTS
GASOLINE FORMULATION. A BLENDING MATHEMATICAL MODEL IS
USED
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN) FLEXIBILITY AND LOW
ESTIMATION ERRORS(*)
RESEARCH BY TRIVELLA, PASADAKIS, LILLIAN AND OTHERS

CASE STUDY
ESTIMATING BLENDING OCTANE NUMBERS,
USING ANN.
INPUT:
PROPORTIONS
OF EACH
COMPONENT IN
EACH BLENDING

OUTPUT:
BLENDINGS
RON&MON

CASE STUDY
STEPS IN USING THE ANN:
CREATING THE ANN
DETERMINING THE INPUT AND THE OUTPUT FOR THE ANN

CREATING A BLANK ANN;

DETERMINING THE ANN ARCHITECTURE;

TRAINING THE ANN

CREATING THE TRAINING DATABASE (TD);
DETERMINING THE INPUT AND THE TARGET DATA FOR THE TD;
FILLING THE TD;
ACTUAL TRAINING

EXPERIMENTAL PART
TO FILL THE TD 60 BLENDINGS, USING:

Component

RON

MON

FCC Gasoline

94,0

83,7

CR GASOLINE;

CR Gasoline

96,0

83,0

IC5 FRACTION;

iC5 Fraction

94,3

87,6

BIOETHANOL.

Bioethanol

108,6

89,7

FCC GASOLINE;

TDS INPUT DATA: PROPORTIONS OF EACH COMPONENT IN EACH BLENDING

TDS TARGET (OUTPUT) DATA: BLENDINGS RON&MON
EQUIPMENT USED: IROX 2000

EXPERIMENTAL PART
TO CREATE THE 60 BLENDINGS:
10 BASE BLENDINGS (FCC, CR AND IC5 FRACTION). A FEW BLENDING RECIPES USED
ARE PRESENTED IN THE TABLE BELOW

TO EACH OF THE BASE BLENDING BIOETHANOL (2, 4, 6, 8 AND 10% VOL.)

Blending
number

FCC Gasoline
(% vol.)

CR Gasoline
(% vol.)

iC5 Fraction
(% vol.)

40

40

20

45

30

25

35

45

20

40

45

15

50

25

25

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CREATING

AND TRAINING
SOFTWARE: NEURAL NETWORK FITTING TOOL MODULE OF
MATLAB R2012B

WIZARD FOR ANN CREATION AND TRAINING

TRAINING PARAMETERS:
70% TRAINING DATA, 15% VALIDATION DATA, 15% TESTING
DATA
10 NEURONS IN HIDDEN LAYER
LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT TRAINING ALGORITHM

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CREATING

AND TRAINING
TRAINING RESULTS:

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CREATING

AND TRAINING
TRAINING RESULTS:

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

DETERMINED VERSUS ESTIMATED OCTANE NUMBERS
FOR A BLENDING:

39.2% VOL. FCC GASOLINE,

39.2% VOL. CR GASOLINE,
19.6% VOL. IC5 FRACTION,
2% VOL. BIOETHANOL

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

RESUL
TS:
RON
Determine
d
96.3

MON
Estimated Difference Determine Estimated Difference
d
96.5
0.2
85.2
85.54
0.34

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

DISCUSSIONS:
THE LARGEST ESTIMATION ERROR IS OF 0.34 OCTANE UNITS;

THIS ERROR WAS OBTAINED IN SPITE OF A SMALL DATABASE,

VOLUME-WISE
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY: ITS BETTER TO HAVE A SMALL
DATABASE WITH CORRELATED DATA THAN A LARGER ONE, WITH
LESS CORRELATED DATA

CONCLUSIONS
A CASE STUDY FOR USING AN ANN TO ESTIMATE GASOLINE
BLENDING PROPERTIES WAS PRESENTED

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 60 BLENDINGS WAS

NEEDED
THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA WAS USED TO CREATE A TD, TO TRAIN
THE ANN. MATLAB R2012B WAS USED
MAXIMUM ANNS ESTIMATION ERROR: 0.34 OCTANE UNITS
OTHER PROPERTIES CAN BE ESTIMATED, PROVIDED THE
APPROPRIATE TD

THE END