Improved estimation of Cetane number of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) based biodiesels using TLBO-NN and PSO-NN models

Cetane number (CN) is one of the key factors of biodiesels and other diesel fuels. It is an indicator of ignition speed and required compression for ignition. CN estimation of biodiesel based on fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) composition was the main goal of this work. Application of artificial neural network (ANN) combined with particle swarm optimization (PSO) and teaching-learning based optimization (TLBO) is discussed in this communication....