Using an artificial neural network to predict carbon dioxide compressibility factor at high pressure and temperature

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering - Tập 32 - Trang 2087-2096 - 2015
Erfan Mohagheghian1, Habiballah Zafarian-Rigaki2, Yaser Motamedi-Ghahfarrokhi2, Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh2
1Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
2Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Tóm tắt

Carbon dioxide injection, which is widely used as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method, has the potential of being coupled with CO2 sequestration and reducing the emission of greenhouse gas. Hence, knowing the compressibility factor of carbon dioxide is of a vital significance. Compressibility factor (Z-factor) is traditionally measured through time consuming, expensive and cumbersome experiments. Hence, developing a fast, robust and accurate model for its estimation is necessary. In this study, a new reliable model on the basis of feed forward artificial neural networks is presented to predict CO2 compressibility factor. Reduced temperature and pressure were selected as the input parameters of the proposed model. To evaluate and compare the results of the developed model with pre-existing models, both statistical and graphical error analyses were employed. The results indicated that the proposed model is more reliable and accurate compared to pre-existing models in a wide range of temperature (up to 1,273.15 K) and pressure (up to 140 MPa). Furthermore, by employing the relevancy factor, the effect of pressure and temprature on the Z-factor of CO2 was compared for below and above the critical pressure of CO2, and the physcially expected trends were observed. Finally, to identify the probable outliers and applicability domain of the proposed ANN model, both numerical and graphical techniques based on Leverage approach were performed. The results illustrated that only 1.75% of the experimental data points were located out of the applicability domain of the proposed model. As a result, the developed model is reliable for the prediction of CO2 compressibility factor.

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