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Predicting tobacco pyrolysis based on chemical constituents and heating conditions using machine learning approaches

Journal

FUEL
Volume 335, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126895

Keywords

Tobacco; Pyrolysis; Extra-Trees(ET); Machine learning

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A tobacco pyrolysis model based on complex chemical constituents and heating conditions was developed using machine learning approaches. A database containing 49 samples was constructed from chemical analysis and thermogravimetric analysis. The model was trained and evaluated using this database, and it showed accurate prediction of tobacco pyrolysis behavior.
Tobacco is a special type of biomass that consists of complex chemical constituents. Currently, only global kinetic models have been developed for tobacco pyrolysis, but accurate kinetics considering the effects of the complex chemical constituents and heating conditions have not been well established. To this end, a general tobacco pyrolysis model was developed based on the complex chemical constituents and heating conditions using machine learning approaches. Specifically, chemical analysis and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of 49 tobacco samples under a wide range of heating rates were first conducted by experiments and then used to construct a database for the model development. Subsequently, the constructed database was divided into seen and unseen data-sets for the model development and evaluation. General pyrolysis models for single/multiple heating rates were developed from the seen data-set using an advanced machine learning approach, the Extremely Randomized Trees (Extra-Trees, ET). The performances of models were further evaluated on the unseen data-set through comparisons with the experimental data. The results showed that after feature selection based on Pearson correlation coefficient and hyper-parameters optimization, the trained models could accurately reproduce the tobacco pyrolysis behavior on the unseen data with R-2 > 0.967 based on a single heating rate and with R-2 > 0.974 based on all heating rates. In addition, the predicted derivative thermogravimetry (DTG) profiles were integrated to obtain the TGA profiles, and the results agreed very well with the experimental data (R-2 > 0.99).

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