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dc.contributor.authorYousuf, Noman
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, T.N.
dc.contributor.authorGschwendtner, M.
dc.contributor.authorNates, R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-05T02:27:46Z
dc.date.available2018-06-05T02:27:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.isbn9781740523776
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/4264
dc.description.abstractAir-lift pumps have begun to receive a high degree of attention due to the absence of mechanical components and the potential for their use in renewable energy applications. One of the principal challenges of the air-lift pump is increasing the volume of fluid it can pump, as such it may be possible to utilise multiple parallel tubes. In such an arrangement it is necessary to have the two phases distributed to multiple tubes from a common source. However, from an analytical perspective this leads to multiple steady state solutions and hence accurately predicting the pumping characteristics of an air-lift pump becomes extremely complex. To circumvent the analytical challenges associated with dividing a multiphase flow amongst multiple parallel tubes this work utilised an artificial neural network (ANN) (a class of artificial intelligence) to the prediction of the pumping characteristics of an air-lift pump with multiple parallel lift tubes. The results show that the neural network model provides an extremely accurate prediction of the pumping characteristics of multiple tube air-lift pumps within the training bounds. Moreover, the ANN provides insights into the pumping characteristics of multiple tube air-lift pumps outside these bounds that would be extremely difficult to achieve by analytical meansen_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/20/452%20Paper.pdfen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectair-lift pumpsen_NZ
dc.subjectmultiple parallel lift tubesen_NZ
dc.subjectmodellingen_NZ
dc.subjectpredictionen_NZ
dc.subjectArtificial Neural Network (ANN)en_NZ
dc.titlePredicting the pumping characteristics of multiple parallel tube air-lift pumpsen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedingsen_NZ
dc.date.updated2018-05-26T14:30:06Z
dc.subject.marsden0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineeringen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationYousuf, N., Anderson, T., Gschwendtner, M., & Nates, R. (2016). Predicting the pumping characteristics of multiple parallel tube air-lift pumps. Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4 online). Retrieved from http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/20/452%20Paper.pdfen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage1-4 onlineen_NZ
unitec.conference.titleProceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conferenceen_NZ
unitec.conference.locationPerth, West Australia, Australiaen_NZ
unitec.conference.sdate2016-12-05
unitec.conference.edate2016-12-08
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms61557en_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaConstruction + Engineering


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