Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach

Illegal plastic burning has caused several environmental and health impacts on society. It is important to locate the burning source quickly to mitigate the emission before people are exposed to the toxic gases. However, the conventional methods of source localization such as trained dogs, sensors,...

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Main Authors: H.L. Yu, B.H. Chen, K.S. Kim, P. Siwayanan, S.Y. Thomas Choong, Z.H. Ban
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Published: Elsevier 2022-06-01
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author H.L. Yu
B.H. Chen
K.S. Kim
P. Siwayanan
S.Y. Thomas Choong
Z.H. Ban
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K.S. Kim
P. Siwayanan
S.Y. Thomas Choong
Z.H. Ban
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description Illegal plastic burning has caused several environmental and health impacts on society. It is important to locate the burning source quickly to mitigate the emission before people are exposed to the toxic gases. However, the conventional methods of source localization such as trained dogs, sensors, and infrared camera are limited and less efficient. This research paper was conducted to study the combination of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and machine learning method on the plastic burning location assessment. 8 sensors were placed in a 530 m radius around the residential area in Telok Panglima Garang city in the computational domain to detect the concentration of the toxic gases released (methane and benzene) from 12 different possible illegal burning locations. A total of 65 training data sets and 7 validation sets under different burning locations, wind speeds, and wind directions were obtained using CFD approach. According to the simulation, it was found that the sensor readings vary under different atmospheric conditions. Besides, the wind direction and wind speed will affect the direction of gas dispersion and mixing effect, which results in different sensor values. The data sets obtained from the generated simulation were used for the machine learning process in the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to study the trend for each case. In this report, the ANN model includes 16 input, 4 hidden, and 12 output neurons. The model can achieve 85.71% validity with an average error of 3.86%.
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spelling doaj.art-98b9d86743af486fa0b15fa2904732c22022-12-22T03:22:32ZengElsevierDigital Chemical Engineering2772-50812022-06-013100029Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approachH.L. Yu0B.H. Chen1K.S. Kim2P. Siwayanan3S.Y. Thomas Choong4Z.H. Ban5School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, MalaysiaSchool of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, Malaysia; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, ChinaSchool of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, Malaysia; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, ChinaSchool of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, Malaysia; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, ChinaFaculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Selangor 43400, MalaysiaSchool of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, Malaysia; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; Corresponding author at: School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor 43900, Malaysia.Illegal plastic burning has caused several environmental and health impacts on society. It is important to locate the burning source quickly to mitigate the emission before people are exposed to the toxic gases. However, the conventional methods of source localization such as trained dogs, sensors, and infrared camera are limited and less efficient. This research paper was conducted to study the combination of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and machine learning method on the plastic burning location assessment. 8 sensors were placed in a 530 m radius around the residential area in Telok Panglima Garang city in the computational domain to detect the concentration of the toxic gases released (methane and benzene) from 12 different possible illegal burning locations. A total of 65 training data sets and 7 validation sets under different burning locations, wind speeds, and wind directions were obtained using CFD approach. According to the simulation, it was found that the sensor readings vary under different atmospheric conditions. Besides, the wind direction and wind speed will affect the direction of gas dispersion and mixing effect, which results in different sensor values. The data sets obtained from the generated simulation were used for the machine learning process in the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to study the trend for each case. In this report, the ANN model includes 16 input, 4 hidden, and 12 output neurons. The model can achieve 85.71% validity with an average error of 3.86%.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772508122000205CFDSource localizationGas dispersionANNPlastic burning
spellingShingle H.L. Yu
B.H. Chen
K.S. Kim
P. Siwayanan
S.Y. Thomas Choong
Z.H. Ban
Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
Digital Chemical Engineering
CFD
Source localization
Gas dispersion
ANN
Plastic burning
title Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
title_full Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
title_fullStr Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
title_full_unstemmed Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
title_short Source localization for illegal plastic burning in Malaysia via CFD-ANN approach
title_sort source localization for illegal plastic burning in malaysia via cfd ann approach
topic CFD
Source localization
Gas dispersion
ANN
Plastic burning
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772508122000205
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