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ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK VS. LINEAR REGRESSION FOR MODELING REACTOR OF THE CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS
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The paper presents the research and results obtained by authors concerning the reactor modeling of the catalytic cracking process using two methods: artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR). This study is structured in four parts. The first part presents the process description, and the existing models in the literature. The second part presents the multiple linear regression method, the reactor model obtained with this method, and the comparison between the output experimental data of the reactor and output variables predicted with the MLR method. The experimental data were taken from a Romanian refinery. The next section describes the steps involved to build the neural network developed by authors for modeling the reactor, and the result of the comparison between the output experimental data of the reactor and output variables predicted with the ANN. The result shows that the neural model developed for the reactor is superior to the statistical model obtained with multiple linear regression.
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