Prediction of Phenolic Compound Migration Process through Soil Media using Artificial Neural Network Approach

This study presents the application of artificial neural network for modeling the phenolic compound migration through vertical soil column. A three layered feed forward neural network with back propagation training algorithm was developed using forty eight experimental data sets obtained from laboratory fixed bed vertical column tests. The input parameters used in the model were the influent concentration of phenol(mg/L) on the top end of the soil column, depth of the soil column (cm), elapsed time after phenol injection (hr), percentage of clay (%), percentage of silt (%) in soils. The output of the ANN was the effluent phenol concentration (mg/L) from the bottom end of the soil columns. The ANN predicted results were compared with the experimental results of the laboratory tests and the accuracy of the ANN model was evaluated.

Authors:

• Supriya Pal
• Kalyan Adhikari
• Somnath Mukherjee
• Sudipta Ghosh

Keywords:

• Modeling
• Neural Networks
• Phenol
• Soil media

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