Gasoline Molecular Composition Prediction Based on Autoencoder Algorithm

doi:10.12422/j.issn.1672-6952.2024.02.001

Abstract

Abstract:

Gasoline molecular blending technology on?line requires rapid access to detailed molecular composition information of various types of component oils. In this paper, an autoencoder?based method for the rapid resolution of gasoline molecular composition is developed, which can directly predict the detailed monomeric hydrocarbon composition of gasoline from near?infrared spectra. The constructed autoencoder model of gasoline molecular composition can explore the potential features and recover the original molecular composition by decoding the potential features. The artificial neural network algorithm is used to correlate the NIR spectral information with the potential features of gasoline composition. The accuracy of the model is verified by using hydrogenated gasoline with the average absolute error is 0.033. The model developed in this work applies the current popular autoencoder algorithm to the traditional petrochemical process, which is an important guideline for blending online and real?time optimization of gasoline molecules.

Key words: Blending on?line, Autoencoder, Molecular composition, Rapid resolution, Near?infrared spectra

摘要：

汽油分子在线调和技术需要快速获取各种类型组分油的详细分子组成信息。开发了基于自编码器的汽油分子组成快速解析方法，该方法可由近红外光谱直接预测汽油详细单体烃的组成。构建的汽油分子组成自编码器模型可挖掘汽油组成的潜在特征，并利用潜在特征解码恢复原始分子组成。利用神经网络算法关联近红外光谱特征信息与汽油组成的潜在特征，并采用加氢汽油验证了模型的准确性。结果表明，平均绝对误差为0.033。开发的模型将自编码器算法应用在传统的石油化工过程中，对汽油分子在线调和与实时优化具有重要的指导意义。

关键词: 在线调和, 自编码器, 分子组成, 快速解析, 近红外光谱

CLC Number:

TE626

Guangqing CAI, Yijiong HU, Chunpeng LI, Ye JI, Hongli WANG. Gasoline Molecular Composition Prediction Based on Autoencoder Algorithm[J]. Journal of Liaoning Petrochemical University, 2024, 44(2): 1-6.

蔡广庆, 胡益炯, 李春澎, 纪晔, 王弘历. 基于自编码器的汽油分子组成预测[J]. 辽宁石油化工大学学报, 2024, 44(2): 1-6.

Figures/Tables 8

Fig.1 Schematic diagram of model construction for rapid prediction of gasoline molecular composition by near infrared spectroscopy

Fig.2 Near?infrared spectra of 107 gasoline samples

Fig.3 The typical gas chromatogram of gasoline

Fig.4 Classification visualization of near?infrared spectra and gas chromatogram data on two?dimensional coordinates

Fig.5 Schematic diagram of gasoline molecular composition autoencoder model

Fig.6 Training results of gasoline molecular composition autoencoder

Fig. 7 Comparison of predicted and experimental values of hydrogenated gasoline in the test set

Fig.8 Parity plot of predicted and experimental values of hydrogenated gasoline

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