Melt index prediction by RBF neural network with an ICO-VSA hybrid optimization algorithm

Melt index (MI) is considered as one of the most significant parameter to determine the quality and the grade of the practical polypropylene polymerization products. A novel ICO-VSA-RNN (RBF neural network with ICO-VSA algorithm) MI prediction model is proposed based on radial basis function (RBF) neural network and improved chaos optimization (ICO), and variable-scale analysis (VSA), where the ICO is first added and then combined with the VSA to overcome the defects of ICO and VSA, then the parameters of the RBF neural network are optimized with them. At last, the RBF neural network model for MI prediction model is developed. Further researches on the optimal RBF neural network model of MI prediction are carried out with the data from a real industrial plant, and the prediction results show that the performance of this prediction model is much better than the RBF neural network model without optimization. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012

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