Phase Equilibrium Modeling of Structure H Clathrate Hydrates of Methane + Water "Insoluble" Hydrocarbon Promoter Using Group Contribution-Support Vector Machine Technique

Abstract : In this work, the group contribution (GC) method is coupled with the least-squares support vector machine (LSSVM) mathematical algorithm to develop a model for representation/prediction of the dissociation conditions of structure H (sH) clathrate hydrates of methane with 21 hydrocarbon promoters namely as water "insoluble" promoters. Almost all of available literature data are studied to present a reliable model validated by the following statistical parameters: absolute average relative deviations (AARD) of the represented/predicted dissociation pressures from the reported experimental values: about 1.6%, and squared correlation coefficient: 0.99.