Artificial neural network-based estimation of mercury speciation in combustion flue gases

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 85, Issue 6-7, 2004, Pages 451-462

  Jensen, Robert R ^a   Karki, Shankar ^a   Salehfar, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilayer perceptron; Neural network correlation; Speciated mercury emissions

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COAL FIRED BOILERS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FLUE GASES; GAS EMISSIONS; MERCURY (METAL); MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON (MLP); NEURAL NETWORK CORRELATION; SPECIATED MERCURY EMISSION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 1842831510     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2003.11.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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