Thermodynamics and ANN models for predication of the equilibrium CO2 solubility in aqueous 3-dimethylamino-1-propanol solution

Abstract

In this work, the CO2 equilibrium solubility of 3-dimethylamino-1-propanol (3DMA1P) is presented over the concentration range of 1–3mol/L, the temperature range of 298–333K, and the CO2 partial pressure of 3–101kPa. Several thermodynamic models (i.e. Kent-Eisenberg model, Austgen model, Hu-Chakma model, Liu et al. model) were used to correlate and predict the CO2 equilibrium solubility of 3DMA1P solution. It was found that the Liu et al. model could be considered to be an appropriate model to predict the CO2 equilibrium solubility in 3DMA1P solutions with an absolute average deviation (ADD) of 9.4%. In addition, the ANNs models (BPNN and RBFNN model) were developed and used to correlate the CO2 equilibrium solubility of 3DMA1P. It was found that the ANNs models could predict the experimental values very well with excellent ADDs of 3.0% for the BPNN model and 4.4% for the RBFNN model, respectively. In addition, a comparison of thermodynamic models and ANN models was presented in terms of prediction of CO2 solubility in 3DMA1P solution.