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    Austin Christopher Grewell

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    Presentation: 10:45-12:00, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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    Description

    The approval procedure for new sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is a lengthy and costly process as it requires extensive testing. Several physicochemical properties must be measured for a new jet fuel, and their values must fall within specific required ranges. The ability to mitigate actual testing and measurements with predictive models would accelerate the certification process and reduce the associated costs. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly attractive tools for developing predictive models for the physicochemical properties of jet fuels.This project used machine learning methods to predict the density of hydrocarbon mixtures based on specific molecular descriptors. A dataset comprised of 17060 hydrocarbons with known density and corresponding molecular descriptors (group functionalities and topological indexes) was used to train ML models. Random forest and artificial neural networks were chosen as training algorithms. A hyperparameter optimization was used to determine the optimum parameters for each model.The random forest models trained with 80% of the dataset yielded R2 values greater than 0.98 for the remaining 20% of the dataset, indicating good performances and minimal to no overfitting. Models were tested on a set of random binary, tertiary and quaternary mixtures, yielding R2 values greater than 0.88.

    Publication Date

    4-17-2024

    Project Designation

    Course Project - MEE 460 01

    Primary Advisor

    Giacomo Flora

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, School of Engineering

    Institutional Learning Goals

    Scholarship; Critical Evaluation of Our Times

    Prediction of Hydrocarbon Density with Machine Learning Models

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