TY - DATA AU - Pérez,José R. AU - López,Roberto AU - Dassori,Carlos G. AU - Ranson,Aaron AU - López,Roberto AU - Dassori,Carlos G. AU - Ranson,Aaron ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) TI - ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLIED TO THE OPERATION OF A FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING (FCC) UNIT: SPE 69501 PY - 2001/// CY - Dallas, Texas PB - Society of Petroleum Engineers N2 - A model, based on artificial neural networks (ANN), for a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit is developed. The ANN model of the plant was developed using process and laboratory data directly from a refinery data acquisition system. And it used to predict process variables and estimate several product quality properties. The empirical model was accurate up to 98.0 % when tested on experimental data not used during training, which is an outstanding performance. The present paper shows how a neural network, three-layered perceptron, can be used effectively to simulate the actual behaviour of refining units, specifically a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit UR - https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/LACPEC2001/Spe69501.pdf ER -