A Methodical Approach to Scaling Up an Aerated Coaxial Mixer Containing a Shear-Thinning Fluid: Effect of the Fluid Rheology

Rahimzadeh, Ali; Ein‐Mozaffari, Farhad; Lohi, Ali

doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.3c00464

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“…The coaxial bioreactor is a type of mixing system particularly designed for dispersing gas in non-Newtonian fluids [15,16]. These systems consist of two independent agitators.…”

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Application of Machine Learning Models in Coaxial Bioreactors: Classification and Torque Prediction

Rahimzadeh,

Ranjbarrad,

Ein-Mozaffari

et al. 2024

ChemEngineering

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Coaxial bioreactors are known for effectively dispersing gas inside non-Newtonian fluids. However, due to their design complexity, many aspects of their design and function, including the relationship between hydrodynamics and bioreactor efficiency, remain unexplored. Nowadays, various numerical models, such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and artificial intelligence models, provide exceptional opportunities to investigate the performance of coaxial bioreactors. For the first time, this study applied various machine learning models, both classifiers and regressors, to predict the torque generated by a coaxial bioreactor. In this regard, 500 CFD simulations at different aeration rates, central impeller speeds, anchor impeller speeds, and rotating modes were conducted. The results obtained from the CFD simulations were used to train and test the machine learning models. Careful feature scaling and k-fold cross-validation were performed to enhance all models’ performance and prevent overfitting. A key finding of the study was the importance of selecting the right features for the model. It turns out that just by knowing the speed of the central impeller and the torque generated by the coaxial bioreactor, the rotating mode can be labelled with perfect accuracy using k-nearest neighbors (kNN) or support vector machine models. Moreover, regression models, including multi-layer perceptron, kNN, and random forest, were examined to predict the torque of the coaxial impellers. The results showed that the random forest model outperformed all other models. Finally, the feature importance analysis indicated that the rotating mode was the most significant parameter in determining the torque value.

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“…The coaxial bioreactor is a type of mixing system particularly designed for dispersing gas in non-Newtonian fluids [15,16]. These systems consist of two independent agitators.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%