Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University with a research group from University of Larestan and Kermanshah University of Technology published a research article entitled “Determination of biodiesel purity through feature mapping to the multi-dimensional space by the LS-SVM approach” in the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry . The journal is indexed by Web of Science (Clarivate Analystice with IF = 2.731).
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About the KOU author:
Salah I. Yahya is a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of engineering, Koya University. He is the Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development. He has a Ph.D. in MW and Communication Engineering. Prof. Yahya has more than 55 published scientific papers, most in journals indexed by Clarivate Analytics. Prof. Yahya is a Senior Member of IEEE. For more information click her.
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Journal Coverage
Title: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Clarivate Analytics (Wos: IF = 2.731)
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
SCOPUS: Q3
Publisher: SPRINGER
Country: Netherland
About the Paper:
Title: Determination of biodiesel purity through feature mapping to the multi-dimensional space by the LS-SVM approach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-10693-7
Abstract:
Purity is one of the essential properties of biodiesel. Since the purity parameter depends on different operating conditions, its direct measurement is too hard and can only be obtained for specific ranges of conditions. Therefore, this work considers the least-squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) that transform operating conditions to a multi-dimensional space to simulate biodiesel purity in wide ranges of operating conditions. Indeed, we develop a reliable LS-SVM approach for modeling the biodiesel purity as a function of catalyst type and its concentration, reaction time, temperature, methanol-to-oil volume ratio, frequency, and amplitude of ultrasonic waves. The designed LS-SVM’s predictive performance is compared with four available artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in reliable literature. The obtained results confirm that the LS-SVM paradigm outperforms other considered AI-based techniques regarding five different statistical criteria. Our LS-SVM model provides AARD = 2.2%, RMSE = 3.46, and R2 = 0.9868 for the prediction of 267 experimental data points, which includes 267 data points. This model is finally employed for investigating the effect of different influential variables on biodiesel purity.
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