Catalysis

Engineering

Biology

Systems engineering

Iodine value

Fatty acid

Diesel fuel

Biodiesel

Estimation

Thermodynamics

Physics

Extraction (chemistry)

Organic chemistry

Renewable energy

Mathematics

Environmental science

Chemistry

Viscosity

Pour point

Biological system

Pulp and paper industry

Fatty acid methyl ester

Electrical engineering

Cloud point

Fuel

Biodiesel as an environmental friendly and renewable fuel assigns a great potential to substitution of petroleum diesel. The biodiesel characteristics are highly dependent on the structure of its basis oil. The main aim of the present work was to develop an accurate model based on LSSVM-PSO algorithm to estimate biodiesel properties, i.e., pour point, cloud point, iodine value and kinematic viscosity as a function of fatty acids composition. The temperature, molecular weight, weight percent of saturated acids, poly unsaturated fatty acids and mono unsaturated fatty acids, number of double bonds, and carbon number are involved variables for development of the models. The performance of LSSVM-PSO model is evaluated using different statistical criteria which result in the coefficients of determination of 0.99995, 0.99981, 0.99848 and 0.99930 for pour point, cloud point, iodine value and kinematic viscosity, respectively. In addition, the outcomes of the proposed model are compared with those from an ANFIS model indicating the great potential of the LSSVM-PSO model to estimate the biodiesel properties.

An insight into the estimation of fatty acid methyl ester based biodiesel properties using a LSSVM model