AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-160031
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Reverse Osmosis Desalination Performance Using  Artificial Neural Network Approach with Optimization

S. Virapan1* R. Saravanane2 V. Murugaiyan1
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1 Larsen and Toubro Limited, Mount Poonamalle Road, Manapakkam, Chennai – 600089, India
2 Department of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India
AJWEP 2016, 13(3), 95–102; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-160031
Submitted: 29 January 2016 | Revised: 13 May 2016 | Accepted: 13 May 2016 | Published: 18 July 2016
© 2016 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Reverse osmosis (RO) has found extensive usage in the fields of desalination and pollution control. The intention of the proposed work is to predict the thermal efficiency and average flux in RO process using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with optimization process. These prediction processes initially optimize the network structure hidden layer and hidden neuron using different training algorithms and get the better network structure. For improving the prediction accuracy of RO in ANN process different optimization techniques are used. The optimal hidden layer and neuron attained in hybridization of GA and PSO technique based predict the parameters. From the results the ANN training algorithm predicts the error accuracy in LM and also in HA technique 75.2% and 89.25% respectively in this work compared to the GA and PSO techniques.

Keywords
Reverse osmosis
efficiency
hidden layer and neuron
optimization technique and training algorithm
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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