An expert system based on hybrid ICA-ANN technique to estimate macerals contents of Indian coals |
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Authors: | Manoj Khandelwal Amir Mahdiyar Danial Jahed Armaghani T N Singh Ahmad Fahimifar Roohollah Shirani Faradonbeh |
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Institution: | 1.Faculty of Science and Technology,Federation University Australia,Ballarat,Australia;2.Department of Structure and Material, Faculty of Civil Engineering,Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,Skudai,Malaysia;3.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Amirkabir University of Technology,Tehran,Iran;4.Department of Earth Sciences,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,Powai,India;5.Young Researchers and Elite Club, South Tehran Branch,Islamic Azad University,Tehran,Iran |
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Abstract: | Coal, as an initial source of energy, requires a detailed investigation in terms of ultimate analysis, proximate analysis, and its biological constituents (macerals). The rank and calorific value of each type of coal are managed by the mentioned properties. In contrast to ultimate and proximate analyses, determining the macerals in coal requires sophisticated microscopic instrumentation and expertise. This study emphasizes the estimation of the concentration of macerals of Indian coals based on a hybrid imperialism competitive algorithm (ICA)–artificial neural network (ANN). Here, ICA is utilized to adjust the weight and bias of ANNs for enhancing their performance capacity. For comparison purposes, a pre-developed ANN model is also proposed. Checking the performance prediction of the developed models is performed through several performance indices, i.e., coefficient of determination (R 2), root mean square error and variance account for. The obtained results revealed higher accuracy of the proposed hybrid ICA-ANN model in estimating macerals contents of Indian coals compared to the pre-developed ANN technique. Results of the developed ANN model based on R 2 values of training datasets were obtained as 0.961, 0.955, and 0.961 for predicting vitrinite, liptinite, and inertinite, respectively, whereas these values were achieved as 0.948, 0.947, and 0.957, respectively, for testing datasets. Similarly, R 2 values of 0.988, 0.983, and 0.991 for training datasets and 0.989, 0.982, and 0.985 for testing datasets were obtained from developed ICA-ANN model. |
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