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    Modeling wax disappearance temperature using robust white-box machine learning
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2024) Nait Amar, Menad; Zeraibi, Noureddine; Benamara, Chahrazed; Djema, Hakim; Saifi, Redha; Gareche, Mourad
    Wax deposition is one of the major operational problems encountered in the upstream petroleum production system. The deposition of this undesirable scale can cause a variety of challenging problems. In order to avoid the latter, numerous parameters associated with the mechanism of wax deposition should be determined precisely. In this study, a new smart correlation was proposed for the accurate prediction of Wax disappearance temperature (WDT) using a robust explicit-based machine learning (ML) approach, namely gene expression programming (GEP). The correlation was developed using comprehensive experimental measurements. The obtained results revealed the promising degree of accuracy of the suggested GEP-based correlations. In this context, the newly-introduced correlations provided excellent statistical metrics (R2 = 0.9647 and AARD = 0.5963 %). Furthermore, performance of the developed correlation outperformed that of many existing approaches for predicting WDT. In addition, the trend analysis performed on the outcomes of the proposed GEP-based correlations divulged their physical validity and consistency. Lastly, the findings of this study provide a promising benefit, as the newly developed correlations can notably improve the adequate estimation of WDT, thus facilitating the simulation of wax deposition-related phenomena. In this context, the proposed correlations can supply the effective management of the production facilities and improvement of project economics since the provided correlation is a simple-to-use decision-making tool for production and chemical engineers engaged in the management of organic deposit-related issues.
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    Prediction of Wax Appearance Temperature Using Artificial Intelligent Techniques
    (Springer, 2020) Benamara, Chahrazed; Gharb, Kheira; Nait Amar, Menad; Hamada, Boudjema
    The paraffin particles can promote and be involved in the formation of deposits which can lead to plugging of oil production facilities. In this work, an experimental prediction of wax appearance temperature (WAT) has been performed on 59 Algerian crude oil samples using a pour point tester. In addition, a modeling investigation was done to create reliable WAT paradigms. To do so, gene expression programming and multilayers perceptron optimized with Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm (MLP-LMA) and Bayesian regularization algorithm were implemented. To generate these models, some parameters, namely density, viscosity, pour point, freezing point and wax content in crude oils, have been used as input parameters. The results reveal that the developed models provide satisfactory results. Furthermore, the comparison between these models in terms of accuracy indicates that MLP-LMA has the best performances with an overall average absolute relative error of 0.23% and a correlation coefficient of 0.9475.
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    Modeling viscosity of CO 2 at high temperature and pressure conditions
    (Elsevier, 2020) Nait Amar, Menad; Ghriga, Mohammed Abdelfetah; Ouaer, Hocine; Ben Seghier, Mohamed El Amine; Thai Pham, Binh
    The present work aims at applying Machine Learning approaches to predict CO2 viscosity at different thermodynamical conditions. Various data-driven techniques including multilayer perceptron (MLP), gene expression programming (GEP) and group method of data handling (GMDH) were implemented using 1124 experimental points covering temperature from 220 to 673 K and pressure from 0.1 to 7960 MPa. Viscosity was modelled as function of temperature and density measured at the stated conditions. Four backpropagation-based techniques were considered in the MLP training phase; Levenberg-Marquardt (LM), bayesian regularization (BR), scaled conjugate gradient (SCG) and resilient backpropagation (RB). MLP-LM was the most fit of the proposed models with an overall root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.0012 mPa s and coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9999. A comparison showed that our MLP-LM model outperformed the best preexisting Machine Learning CO2 viscosity models, and that our GEP correlation was superior to preexisting explicit correlations.
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    Rigorous connectionist models to predict carbon dioxide solubility in various ionic liquids
    (MDPI AG, 2020) Ouaer, Hocine; hossein hosseini, amir; Nait Amar, Menad; Ben Seghier, Mohamed El Amine; Ghriga, Mohammed Abdelfetah; Nabipour, Narjes; Pål Østebø, Andersen; Mosavi, Amir; Shamshirband, Shahaboddin
    Estimating the solubility of carbon dioxide in ionic liquids, using reliable models, is ofparamount importance from both environmental and economic points of view. In this regard,the current research aims at evaluating the performance of two data-driven techniques, namelymultilayer perceptron (MLP) and gene expression programming (GEP), for predicting the solubilityof carbon dioxide (CO2) in ionic liquids (ILs) as the function of pressure, temperature, and fourthermodynamical parameters of the ionic liquid. To develop the above techniques, 744 experimentaldata points derived from the literature including 13 ILs were used (80% of the points for training and20% for validation). Two backpropagation-based methods, namely Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) andBayesian Regularization (BR), were applied to optimize the MLP algorithm. Various statistical andgraphical assessments were applied to check the credibility of the developed techniques. The resultswere then compared with those calculated using Peng–Robinson (PR) or Soave–Redlich–Kwong(SRK) equations of state (EoS). The highest coefficient of determination (R2=0.9965) and the lowestroot mean square error (RMSE=0.0116) were recorded for the MLP-LMA model on the full dataset(with a negligible difference to the MLP-BR model). The comparison of results from this model with
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    Predicting thermal conductivity of carbon dioxide using group of data-driven models
    (Elsevier, 2020) Nait Amar, Menad; AshkanJahanbani, Ghahfarokhi; Zeraibi, Noureddine
    Thermal conductivity of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a vital thermophysical parameter that significantly affects the heat transfer modeling related to CO2 transportation, pipelines design and associated process industries. The current study lays emphasis on implementing powerful soft computing approaches to develop novel paradigms for estimation of CO2 thermal conductivity. To achieve this, a massive database including 5893 experimental datapoints was acquired from the experimental investigations. The collected data, covering pressure values from 0.097 to 209.763 MPa and temperature between 217.931 and 961.05 K, were employed for establishing various models based on multilayer perceptron (MLP) optimized by different back-propagation algorithms, and radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) coupled with particle swarm optimization (PSO). Then, the two best found models were linked under two committee machine intelligent systems (CMIS) using weighted averaging and group method of data handling (GMDH). The obtained results showed that CMIS-GMDH is the most accurate paradigm with an overall AARD% and R2 values of 0.8379% and 0.9997, respectively. In addition, CMIS-GMDH outperforms the best prior explicit models. Finally, the leverage technique confirmed the validity of the model and more than 96% of the data are within its applicability realm
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    Evolving support vector regression using Grey Wolf optimization; forecasting the geomechanical properties of rock
    (Springer link, 2020) Xu, Chuanhua; Nait Amar, Menad; Ghriga, Mohammed Abdelfetah; Ouaer, Hocine; Zhang, Xiliang; Hasanipanah, Mahdi
    The geomechanical properties of rock, including shear strength (SS) and uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), are very important parameters in designing rock structures. To improve the accuracy of SS and UCS prediction, this study presented an evolving support vector regression (SVR) using Grey Wolf optimization (GWO). To examine the feasibility and applicability of the SVR-GWO model, the differential evolution (DE) and artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithms were also used. In other words, the SVR hyperparameters were tuned using the GWO, DE, and ABC algorithms. To implement the proposed models, a comprehensive database accessible in an open-source was used in this study. Finally, the comparative experiments such as root mean square error (RMSE) were conducted to show the superiority of the proposed models. The SVR-GWO model predicted the SS and UCS with RMSE of 0.460 and 3.208, respectively, while, the SVR-DE model predicted the SS and UCS with RMSE of 0.542 and 5.4, respectively. Furthermore, the SVR-ABC model predicted the SS and UCS with RMSE of 0.855 and 5.033, respectively. The aforementioned results clearly exhibited the applicability as well as the usability of the proposed SVR-GWO model in the prediction of both SS and UCS parameters. Accordingly, the SVR-GWO model can be also applied to solving various complex systems, especially in geotechnical and mining fields
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    Prediction of Lattice Constant of A 2 XY 6 Cubic Crystals Using Gene Expression Programming
    (2020) Nait Amar, Menad; Ghriga, Mohammed Abdelfetah; Ben Seghier, Mohamed El Amine; Ouaer, Hocine
    Lattice constant is one of the paramount parameters that mark the quality of thin film fabrication. Numerous research efforts have been made to calculate and measure lattice constant, including experimental and empirical approaches. Not withstanding these efforts, a reliable and simple-to-use model is still needed to predict accurately this vital parameter. In this study, gene expression programming (GEP) approach was implemented to establish trustworthy model for prediction of the lattice constant of A2XY6 (A = K, Cs, Rb, TI; X = tetravalent cation; and Y = F, Cl, Br, I) cubic crystals based on a comprehensive experimental database. The obtained results showed that the proposed GEP correlation provides excellent prediction performance with an overall average absolute relative deviation (AARD%) of 0.3596% and a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9965. Moreover, the comparison of the performance between the newly proposed correlation and the best pre-existing paradigms demonstrated that the established GEP correlation is more robust, reliable, and efficient than the prior models for prediction of lattice constant of A2XY6 cubic crystals
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    Automated design of a new integrated intelligent computing paradigm for constructing a constitutive model applicable to predicting rock fractures
    (Elsevier, 2020) Peng, Kang; Nait Amar, Menad; Ouaer, Hocine; Motahari, Mohammed Reza; Hasanipanah, Mahdi
    Making a relation between strains and stresses is an important subject in the rock engineering field. Shear behaviors of rock fractures have been extensively investigated by different researchers. Literature mostly consists of constitutive models in the form of empirical functions that represent experimental data using mathematical regression techniques. As an alternative, this study aims to present a new integrated intelligent computing paradigm to form a constitutive model applicable to rock fractures. To this end, an RBFNN-GWO model is presented, which integrates the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) with grey wolf optimization (GWO). In the proposed model, the hyperparameters and weights of RBFNN were tuned using the GWO algorithm. The efficiency of the designed RBFNN-GWO was examined comparing it with the RBFNN-GA model (a combination of RBFNN and the Genetic Algorithm). The proposed models were trained based on the results of a systematic set of 84 direct shear tests gathered from the literature. The finding of the current study demonstrated the efficiency of both the RBFNN-GA and RBFNN-GWO models in predicting the dilation angle, peak shear displacement, and stress as the rock fracture properties. Among the two models proposed in this study, the statistical results revealed the superiority of RBFNN-GWO over RBFNN-GA in terms of prediction accuracy
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    Hybrid soft computational approaches for modeling the maximum ultimate bond strength between the corroded steel reinforcement and surrounding concrete
    (Springer, 2020) Ben Seghier, Mohamed El Amine; Ouaer, Hocine; Ghriga, Mohammed Abdelfetah; Nait Amar, Menad; Duc-Kien, Thai
    The capacity efficiency of load carrying with the accurate serviceability performances of reinforced concrete (RC) structure is an important aspect, which is mainly dependent on the values of the ultimate bond strength between the corroded steel reinforcements and the surrounding concrete. Therefore, the precise determination of the ultimate bond strength degradation is of paramount importance for maintaining the safety levels of RC structures affected by corrosion. In this regard, hybrid intelligence and machine learning techniques are proposed to build a new framework to predict the ultimate bond strength in between the corroded steel reinforcements and the surrounding concrete. The proposed computational techniques include the multilayer perceptron (MLP), the radial basis function neural network and the genetic expression programming methods. In addition to that, the Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) deterministic approach and two meta-heuristic optimization approaches, namely the artificial bee colony algorithm and the particle swarm optimization algorithm, are employed in order to guarantee an optimum selection of the hyper-parameters of the proposed techniques. The latter were implemented based on an experimental published database consisted of 218 experimental tests, which cover various factors related to the ultimate bond strength, such as compressive strength of the concrete, concrete cover, the type steel, steel bar diameter, length of the bond and the level of corrosion. Based on their performance evaluation through several statistical assessment tools, the proposed models were shown to predict the ultimate bond strength accurately; outperforming the existing hybrid artificial intelligence models developed based on the same collected database. More precisely, the MLP-LM model was, by far, the best model with a determination coefficient (R2) as high as 0.97 and 0.96 for the training and the overall data, respectively.
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    An efficient methodology for multi-objective optimization of water alternating CO2 EOR process
    (Elsevier, 2019) Nait Amar, Menad; Zeraibi, Noureddine