Application of Neural Network and Dual-Energy Radiation-Based Detection Techniques to Measure Scale Layer Thickness in Oil Pipelines Containing a Stratified Regime of Three-Phase Flow
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Increasing accuracy in the detection system;
- Obtaining the value of scale thickness in the event that a three-phase flow passes through the oil pipe;
- Investigating the performance of the characteristics of the Photopeaks of 241Am and 133Ba for the first and second detectors when determining the thickness of the scale;
- Reducing the computational load by extracting effective features.
2. Simulated Detection System
3. MLP Neural Network
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Type of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) | MLP | ||
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Input layer neurons | 4 | ||
The first hidden layer neurons | 10 | ||
The second hidden layer neurons | 5 | ||
Output layer neurons | 1 | ||
The number of epochs | 600 | ||
Hidden neuron activation function | Tansig | ||
MSE of predicting scale thickness | Training data | Validation data | Test data |
0.002 | 0.003 | 0.002 | |
RMSE of predicting scale thickness | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
Ref | Extracted Features | Type of Neural Network | Maximum MSE | Maximum RMSE |
---|---|---|---|---|
[6] | Time features | GMDH | 1.24 | 1.11 |
[5] | Time features | MLP | 0.21 | 0.46 |
[56] | No feature extraction | GMDH | 7.34 | 2.71 |
[57] | Frequency features | MLP | 0.67 | 0.82 |
[58] | No feature extraction | MLP | 17.05 | 4.13 |
[59] | No feature extraction | MLP | 2.56 | 1.6 |
[60] | Compton continuum and counts under full energy peaks of 1173 and 1333 keV | RBF | 37.45 | 6.12 |
[61] | Full energy peak, photon counts of Compton edge in transmission detector and total count in the scattering detector | MLP | 1.08 | 1.04 |
Current study | Photopeaks of 241Am and 133Ba for the first and second detectors | MLP | 0.003 | 0.06 |
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Mayet, A.M.; Chen, T.-C.; Ahmad, I.; Tag Eldin, E.; Al-Qahtani, A.A.; Narozhnyy, I.M.; Guerrero, J.W.G.; Alhashim, H.H. Application of Neural Network and Dual-Energy Radiation-Based Detection Techniques to Measure Scale Layer Thickness in Oil Pipelines Containing a Stratified Regime of Three-Phase Flow. Mathematics 2022, 10, 3544. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193544
Mayet AM, Chen T-C, Ahmad I, Tag Eldin E, Al-Qahtani AA, Narozhnyy IM, Guerrero JWG, Alhashim HH. Application of Neural Network and Dual-Energy Radiation-Based Detection Techniques to Measure Scale Layer Thickness in Oil Pipelines Containing a Stratified Regime of Three-Phase Flow. Mathematics. 2022; 10(19):3544. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193544
Chicago/Turabian StyleMayet, Abdulilah Mohammad, Tzu-Chia Chen, Ijaz Ahmad, Elsayed Tag Eldin, Ali Awadh Al-Qahtani, Igor M. Narozhnyy, John William Grimaldo Guerrero, and Hala H. Alhashim. 2022. "Application of Neural Network and Dual-Energy Radiation-Based Detection Techniques to Measure Scale Layer Thickness in Oil Pipelines Containing a Stratified Regime of Three-Phase Flow" Mathematics 10, no. 19: 3544. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193544
APA StyleMayet, A. M., Chen, T.-C., Ahmad, I., Tag Eldin, E., Al-Qahtani, A. A., Narozhnyy, I. M., Guerrero, J. W. G., & Alhashim, H. H. (2022). Application of Neural Network and Dual-Energy Radiation-Based Detection Techniques to Measure Scale Layer Thickness in Oil Pipelines Containing a Stratified Regime of Three-Phase Flow. Mathematics, 10(19), 3544. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193544