A Reliable Simple Method For Prediction Of The Flash Points Of Saturated Hydrocarbons In Order To Improve Their Safety

CATEGORY: FLASH POINT
Chemistry, Vol. 20, Iss. 6 (2011)
A Reliable Simple Method For Prediction Of The Flash Points Of Saturated Hydrocarbons In Order To Improve Their Safety
Mohammad Hossein KESHAVARZ,
Hadi MOTAMEDOSHARIATI,
Majid GHANBARZADEH
Malek-ashtar University of Technology, IRAN
Abstract.
A reliable simple method is presented for predicting the flash point of pure cyclic and acyclic saturated hydrocarbons. The novel model is based on the number of carbon atoms as well as two structural parameters for improvement of the predicted results.
The reliability of the new model for further 15 acyclic alkanes is comparable with several new models, which have been recently developed for acyclic alkanes. For 76 cyclic and acyclic alkanes, where outputs of complex method of neural network-group contribution method were available, the proposed model also provides good predictions. The proposed method can easily be used for different hydrocarbons including cyclic and acyclic compounds with complex molecular structures.
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