Prediction of macerals contents of Indian coals from proximate and ultimate analyses using artificial neural networks

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1101-1109

  Khandelwal, Manoj ^a   Singh, T N ^b  

^a Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN); Macerals; Multi variate regression analysis (MVRA); Proximate analysis; Ultimate analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COALFIELDS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CONCENTRATION OF; DATA SETS; IN-DEPTH STUDY; MACERALS; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; PROXIMATE ANALYSIS; SOURCE OF ENERGY; TRAINING AND TESTING; ULTIMATE ANALYSIS;

COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL INDUSTRY; METAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77349119394     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.11.028     Document Type: Article

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