Liquid-Liquid Dispersion Performance Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification Using Recurrent Neural Networks
We demonstrate the application of a recurrent neural network (RNN) to perform multistep and multivariate time-series performance predictions for stirred and static mixers as exemplars of complex multiphase systems. We employ two network architectures in this study, fitted with either long short-term...
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| Published in: | Industrial & engineering chemistry research Vol. 63; no. 17; p. 7853 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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United States
01.05.2024
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| ISSN: | 0888-5885 |
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| Summary: | We demonstrate the application of a recurrent neural network (RNN) to perform multistep and multivariate time-series performance predictions for stirred and static mixers as exemplars of complex multiphase systems. We employ two network architectures in this study, fitted with either long short-term memory and gated recurrent unit cells, which are trained on high-fidelity, three-dimensional, computational fluid dynamics simulations of the mixer performance, in the presence and absence of surfactants, in terms of drop size distributions and interfacial areas as a function of system parameters; these include physicochemical properties, mixer geometry, and operating conditions. Our results demonstrate that while it is possible to train RNNs with a single fully connected layer more efficiently than with an encoder-decoder structure, the latter is shown to be more capable of learning long-term dynamics underlying dispersion metrics. Details of the methodology are presented, which include data preprocessing, RNN model exploration, and methods for model performance visualization; an ensemble-based procedure is also introduced to provide a measure of the model uncertainty. The workflow is designed to be generic and can be deployed to make predictions in other industrial applications with similar time-series data. |
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| ISSN: | 0888-5885 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00014 |