Prediction and evaluation of polymer turbulent drag reduction efficiency based on BP neural network

Abstract

In the process of oil exploitation and transportation, in order to effectively predict and control energy consumption for drag reduction of oil flow, in this paper a BP neural network was proposed based method for predicting and evaluating the turbulent drag reduction efficiency of polymers, which can greatly improve the current situation of relying on empirical formulas and low generality in polymer turbulent drag reduction efficiency prediction. Based on the experimental data sets of four commercial polymer drag-reducing agents FLOXL, М-Flowtreat, Necadd-447, and FLO MXA, obtained at different polymer concentrations, viscosity, density, and Reynolds number, a BP neural network has been established and the optimal number of neurons in the hidden layer was selected using the root mean square error (RMSE) value to obtain the optimal BP neural network prediction model. The BP neural network prediction models for the four polymer drag-reducing agents all have a good fit of 0.98 or above, and the R2 of the trained BP neural network for the Necadd-447 drag-reducing agents is 0.9949, which is the best among the four polymer drag-reducing agents. The BP neural network established in this paper can be applied to the turbulent drag reduction transport of long-distance pipelines for oil products to achieve the prediction of the drag reduction efficiency of polymer additives.