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Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2/2020

09-12-2019 | Research Article - Petroleum Engineering

Prediction of Wax Appearance Temperature Using Artificial Intelligent Techniques

Authors: Chahrazed Benamara, Kheira Gharbi, Menad Nait Amar, Boudjema Hamada

Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering | Issue 2/2020

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Abstract

The paraffin particles can promote and be involved in the formation of deposits which can lead to plugging of oil production facilities. In this work, an experimental prediction of wax appearance temperature (WAT) has been performed on 59 Algerian crude oil samples using a pour point tester. In addition, a modeling investigation was done to create reliable WAT paradigms. To do so, gene expression programming and multilayers perceptron optimized with Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm (MLP-LMA) and Bayesian regularization algorithm were implemented. To generate these models, some parameters, namely density, viscosity, pour point, freezing point and wax content in crude oils, have been used as input parameters. The results reveal that the developed models provide satisfactory results. Furthermore, the comparison between these models in terms of accuracy indicates that MLP-LMA has the best performances with an overall average absolute relative error of 0.23% and a correlation coefficient of 0.9475.
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Metadata
Title
Prediction of Wax Appearance Temperature Using Artificial Intelligent Techniques
Authors
Chahrazed Benamara
Kheira Gharbi
Menad Nait Amar
Boudjema Hamada
Publication date
09-12-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 2193-567X
Electronic ISSN: 2191-4281
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-04290-y

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