Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Modeling in Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Growth.docVIP

American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2013, 4, 616-622 Published Online November 2013 (/journal/ajac) /10.4236/ajac.2013.411073 Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Modeling in Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Growth Jalal Foroozesh , Abbas Khosravani , Adel Mohsenzadeh , Ali Haghighat Mesbahi 1 2 3 4* 1 Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Edinburgh, UK Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Department of Chemical Engineering, Polymer Engineering Group, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran 2 3 4 Email: Mesbahi_haghighat@, A.haghighatmesbahi@ce.iut.ac.ir * * Received August 13, 2013; revised September 13, 2013; accepted October 13, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Jalal Foroozesh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Determining thermodynamic and kinetic conditions for natural gas hydrate formation is an interesting subject for many researches. At the present, suitable information including experimental data and the thermodynamic models of hydrate formation are available which predict the thermodynamic conditions of hydrate formation. Conversely, there is no suf- ficient study about the kinetics of natural gas hydrate and most of experimental data and kinetic models in the literature are incomplete. Artificial Intelligence (AI) having sub-branches such as artificial neural network (ANN), and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) has been