Application of nonlinear partial least square in catalyst modeling

摘要

In this paper neural network partial least square (NNPLS) was used to establish a robust reaction model for a multi-component catalyst of methane oxidative coupling. The details, including the learning algorithm, the number of hidden units of the inner network, activation function, initialization of the network weights and the principal components, are discussed. The results show that the structural organizations of inner neural network are 1-10-5-1, 1-8-4-1, 1-8-5-1, 1-7-4-1, 1-8-4-1, 1-8-6-1, respectively. The Levenberg-Marquardt method was used in the learning algorithm, and the central sigmoidal function is the activation function. Calculation results show that four principal components are convenient in the use of the multi-component catalyst modeling of methane oxidative coupling. Therefore a robust reaction model expressed by NNPLS succeeds in correlating the relations between elements in catalyst and catalytic reaction results. Compared with the direct network modeling, NNPLS model can be adjusted by experimental data conveniently and the calculation of the model is simpler and faster than that of the direct network model.