Nonlinear feature extraction for soft sensor modeling based on weighted probabilistic PCA

X Yuan, L Ye, L Bao, Z Ge, Z Song - Chemometrics and Intelligent …, 2015 - Elsevier
As industrial process plants are often instrumented with a large number of sensors, it is
important to carry out feature extraction before soft sensor modeling. Probabilistic principal …

A CFD‐PBM‐PMLM integrated model for the gas–solid flow fields in fluidized bed polymerization reactors

WC Yan, ZH Luo, YH Lu, XD Chen - AIChE journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Although the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model coupled with population
balance (CFD‐PBM) is becoming a common approach for simulating gas–solid flows in …

Melt index prediction by least squares support vector machines with an adaptive mutation fruit fly optimization algorithm

W Wang, X Liu - Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Melt index (MI) plays an important role in determining product specification, and is
influenced by a large number of process variables in the practical manufacturing process of …

Composition prediction of a debutanizer column using equation based artificial neural network model

NM Ramli, MA Hussain, BM Jan, B Abdullah - Neurocomputing, 2014 - Elsevier
Debutanizer column is an important unit operation in petroleum refining industries. The
design of online composition prediction by using neural network will help improve product …

A soft sensor based on adaptive fuzzy neural network and support vector regression for industrial melt index prediction

M Zhang, X Liu - Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
An adaptive soft sensor for online monitoring melt index (MI), an important variable
determining the product quality in the industrial propylene polymerization (PP) process, is …

Development of soft-sensors for online quality prediction of sequential-reactor-multi-grade industrial processes

Y Liu, Z Gao, J Chen - Chemical engineering science, 2013 - Elsevier
Reliable online quality prediction of sequential-reactor-multi-grade (SRMG) chemical
processes often encounters different challenges, including process nonlinearity, input …

Inferential model for industrial polypropylene melt index prediction with embedded priori knowledge and delay estimation

H Lou, H Su, L Xie, Y Gu, G Rong - Industrial & engineering …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Melt index inferential model plays an important role in the control and optimization of
polypropylene production. This study proposed a novel multiple-priori-knowledge based …

Melt index prediction by RBF neural network optimized with an MPSO-SA hybrid algorithm

J Li, X Liu - Neurocomputing, 2011 - Elsevier
Melt index (MI) is considered as an important quality variable which determines the product
specifications, so reliable estimation of MI is crucial in the quality control of practical …

Melt index prediction using optimized least squares support vector machines based on hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm

H Jiang, Z Yan, X Liu - Neurocomputing, 2013 - Elsevier
Melt index (MI) is considered as one of the most important variables of the quality, which
determines the product specifications. Thus, a reliable estimation of MI is crucial in the …

Improved fruit fly optimization algorithm optimized wavelet neural network for statistical data modeling for industrial polypropylene melt index prediction

W Wang, M Zhang, X Liu - Journal of Chemometrics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the development of wavelet neural network (WNN) with an improved
fruit fly optimization algorithm (IFOA) for the melt index prediction in the industrial propylene …