Prediction of thermal conductivity of liquid and vapor refrigerants for pure and their binary, ternary mixtures using artificial neural network
- Authors: Ghalem N.1, Hanini S.2, Naceur M.W.1, Laidi M.2, Amrane A.3
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Affiliations:
- University of Blida
- University of Médéa
- University of Rennes
- Issue: Vol 26, No 4 (2019)
- Pages: 561-579
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1531-8699/article/view/218529
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864319040085
- ID: 218529
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Abstract
The determination of thermophysical properties of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCS) is very important, especially the thermal conductivity. The present work investigated the potential of an artificial neural network (ANN) model to correlate the thermal conductivity of (HFCS) at (169.87-533.02) K, (0.047-68.201) MPa, and (0.0089-0.1984) W/(m·K) temperature, pressure, and thermal conductivity ranges, respectively, of 11 systems from 3 different categories including five pure systems (R32, R125, R134a, R152a, R143a), four binary mixtures systems (R32 + R125, R32 + R134a, R125 + R134a, R125 + R143a), and two ternary mixtures systems (R32 + R125 + R134a, R125 + R134a + R143a). Each one received 1817, 794 and 616 data points, respectively. The application of this model for these 3227 data points of liquid and vapor at several temperatures and pressures allowed to train, validate and test the model. This study showed that ANN models represent a good alternative to estimate the thermal conductivity of different refrigerant systems with a good accuracy. The squared correlation coefficients of thermal conductivity predicted by ANN were R2 = 0.998 with an acceptable level of accuracy of RMSE = 0.0035 and AAD = 0.002 %. The results of applying the trained neural network model to the test data indicate that the method has a highly significant prediction capability.
About the authors
N. Ghalem
University of Blida
Email: abdeltif.amrane@univ-rennes1.fr
Algeria, Blida
S. Hanini
University of Médéa
Email: abdeltif.amrane@univ-rennes1.fr
Algeria, Médéa
M. W. Naceur
University of Blida
Email: abdeltif.amrane@univ-rennes1.fr
Algeria, Blida
M. Laidi
University of Médéa
Email: abdeltif.amrane@univ-rennes1.fr
Algeria, Médéa
A. Amrane
University of Rennes
Author for correspondence.
Email: abdeltif.amrane@univ-rennes1.fr
France, Rennes