Predicting the performance of a desulfurizing bio-filter using an artificial neural network (ANN) model

The aim of this study was to develop a model for predicting the performance of a desulfurizing bio-filter (BF), without requiring prior information about H2S biodegradation kinetics and mechanism. A single hidden layer artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed and validated using the gradient descent backpropagation (GDBP) learning algorithm coupled with a learning rate and a momentum factor. The ANN model inputs were gas flow rate,...