Neuro-based formulation to predict fouling threshold in crude preheaters

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 525-531

  Aminian, Javad ^a   Shahhosseini, Shahrokh ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Fouling; Modeling; Neuro based formulation; Preheat exchanger

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; CRUDE DISTILLATION UNITS; CRUDE OIL; FOULING BEHAVIORS; FOULING MODELS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONS; MODELING; NEURO-BASED FORMULATION; PLANT DATUM; PRE HEATERS; PREHEAT EXCHANGER; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELS;

BACKPROPAGATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FOULING;

EID: 67349198590     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.01.020     Document Type: Article

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