Grasas y Aceites (Dec 2008)
Prediction of a model enzymatic acidolysis system using neural networks
Abstract
A model for the acidolysis of trinolein and palmitic acid under the catalysis of immobilized sn-1,3 specific lipase was presented in this study. A neural networks (NN) based model was developed for the prediction of the concentrations of the major reaction products of this reaction (1-palmitoyl-2,3-oleoyl-glycerol (POO) 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoyl-glycerol (POP) and triolein (OOO)). Substrate ratio (SR), reaction temperature (T) and reaction time (t) were used as input parameters. The optimal architecture of the proposed NN model, which consists of one input layer with three inputs, one hidden layer with seven neurons and one output layer with three outputs, wass able to predict the reaction products concentration with a mean square error (MSE) of less than 1.5 and R2 of 0.999. and explicit formulation of the proposed NN is presented. Considerable good performance is achieved in modeling the acidolysis reaction using neuronal networks.
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