Prediction and reduction of diesel engine emissions using a combined ANN-ACO method

NOx and soot emissions from a diesel engine are modeled using artificial neural network model.The data used for training and testing the ANN model are obtained through testing a diesel engine.The mass fuel rate, intake air temperature, etc. are optimized using ant colony optimization algorithm.The ACO algorithm gives rise to 32% and 7% reduction in the NOx and soot emissions, respectively. In this study, the combination of artificial neural network (ANN) and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm has been utilized for modeling and reducing NOx and soot emissions from a direct injection diesel engine. A feed-forward multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network is used to represent the relationship between the input parameters (i.e., engine speed, intake air temperature, rate of fuel mass injected, and power) on the one hand and the output parameters (i.e., NOx and soot emissions) on the other hand. The ACO algorithm is employed to find the optimum air intake temperatures and the rates of fuel mass injected for different engine speeds and powers with the purpose of simultaneous reduction of NOx and soot. The obtained results reveal that the ANN can appropriately model the exhaust NOx and soot emissions with the correlation factors of 0.98, 0.96, respectively. Further, the employed ACO algorithm gives rise to 32% and 7% reduction in the NOx and soot, respectively. The response time of the optimization process was obtained to be less than 4min for the particular PC system used in the present work. The high accuracy and speed of the model show its potential for application in intelligent controlling systems of the diesel engines.

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