Modeling and Design of Rotating Packed Beds by the employment of Artificial Intelligence Methods

In recent years, the capabilities of rotating packed beds in dust removal from gases has attracted the attention in different industries. On the other hand, due to intricate complexities of such beds, employment of computational fluid dynamic techniques for design and modeling purposes would be difficult. Therefore, in this research the performance of artificial intelligence techniques in design of theses equipment was investigated. Accordingly, in the first step and by using 561 experimental data points, an artificial neural network system was developed. In the constructed model, dust removal efficiency was considered as the output and the working and design conditions of the bed were fed as the inputs. Performance of the developed system was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively and achieving value of 0.99 for correlation coefficient demonstrates its suitable accuracy in efficiency determination. Finally, employing the developed neural network system combined with genetic algorithms, a novel method for optimum design of beds with arbitrary characteristics was proposed. Performed analyses showed that the constructed system while being simple, offers flexibility and precision in design of rotating packed beds. Also, its low coast of development makes it an attractive idea to be employed in industry scale.