Application of Genetic Algorithm to Parameter Estimation in Liquid-liquid Phase Equilibrium Modeling


Authors

Mostafa Vatani - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, P.O. Box 87317-51167, Iran. Morteza Asghari - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, P.O. Box 87317-51167, Iran. Gholamreza Vakili-nejhaad - Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 33, Muscat, Oman.


Abstract

Parameter estimation problems for liquid–liquid equilibrium data modeling are challenging due to the nonlinearity of thermodynamic models. In this work, the stochastic global optimization technique, namely Genetic Algorithm is applied to calculate the interaction and non randomness parameters of NRTL model. Forty ternary extraction systems containing benzene, hexane and different ionic liquids as solvent at various temperatures reported in literature are selected. The parameters of NRTL model are calculated and the global rmsd value of 0.0076 for 357 tie-lines shows that these parameters can be considered as the global parameters of NRTL model in the studied ternary systems. The global parameters are applied in all systems and rmsd values for them are reported. The results showed that Genetic Algorithm as a powerful and effective tool can be used to optimize highly nonlinear problems in phase equilibrium modeling.


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ISRP Style

Mostafa Vatani, Morteza Asghari, Gholamreza Vakili-nejhaad, Application of Genetic Algorithm to Parameter Estimation in Liquid-liquid Phase Equilibrium Modeling, Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 5 (2012), no. 1, 60-66

AMA Style

Vatani Mostafa, Asghari Morteza, Vakili-nejhaad Gholamreza, Application of Genetic Algorithm to Parameter Estimation in Liquid-liquid Phase Equilibrium Modeling. J Math Comput SCI-JM. (2012); 5(1):60-66

Chicago/Turabian Style

Vatani, Mostafa, Asghari, Morteza, Vakili-nejhaad, Gholamreza. "Application of Genetic Algorithm to Parameter Estimation in Liquid-liquid Phase Equilibrium Modeling." Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 5, no. 1 (2012): 60-66


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