On the evaluation of solubility of hydrogen sulfide in ionic liquids using advanced committee machine intelligent systems

Abstract

Ionic Liquids (ILs) are increasingly emerging as new innovating green solvents with great importance from academic, industrial, and environmental perspectives. This surge of interest in considering ILs in various applications is owed to their attractive properties. Involvements in the gas sweetening and the reduction of the amounts of sour and acid gasses are among the most promising applications of ILs. In this study, new advanced committee machine intelligent systems (CMIS) were introduced for predicting the solubility of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in various ILs. The implemented CMIS models were gained by linking robust data-driven techniques, namely multilayer perceptron (MLP) and cascaded forward neural network (CFNN) beneath rigorous schemes using group method of data handling (GMDH) and genetic programming (GP). The proposed paradigms were developed using an extensive database encompassing 1243 measurements of H2S solubility in 33 ILs. The performed comprehensive error investigation revealed that the newly implemented paradigms yielded very satisfactory prediction performance. Besides, it was found that CMIS-GP provided more accurate estimations of H2S solubility in ILs compared with both the other intelligent models and the best-prior paradigms. In this regard, the developed CMIS-GP exhibited overall average absolute relative deviation (AARD) and coefficient of determination (R2) values of 2.3767% and 0.9990, respectively. Lastly, the trend analyses demonstrated that the tendencies of CMIS-GP predictions were in excellent accordance with the real variations of H2S solubility in ILs with respect to pressure and temperature