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Neural Recommender System for Activity Coefficient Prediction and UNIFAC Model Extension of Ionic Liquid-Solute Systems
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  • Guzhong Chen,
  • Zhen Song,
  • Zhiwen Qi,
  • Kai Sundmacher
Guzhong Chen
East China University of Science and Technology

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Zhen Song
Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme
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Zhiwen Qi
East China University of Science and Technology
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Kai Sundmacher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
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Abstract

For the ionic liquid (IL)-solute systems of broad interest, a deep neural network based recommender system (RS) for predicting the infinite dilution activity coefficient (γ∞) is proposed and applied for a large extension of the UNIFAC model. In the RS, neural network entity embeddings are employed for mapping each IL and solute and neural collaborative filtering is utilized to handle the nonlinearities of IL-solute interactions. A comprehensive experimental γ∞ database covering 215 ILs and 112 solutes (totally 41,553 data points) is established for training the RS, where the cross-validation and test are performed based on a rigorous dataset split by IL-solute combinations. The obtained RS shows superior performance than the state-of-the-art γ∞ models and is thus taken to complete the solute-in-IL γ∞ matrix. Based on the completed γ∞ database, a large extension of the UNIFAC-IL model is finally presented, filling all the parameters between involved groups.
15 Jul 2020Submitted to AIChE Journal
21 Jul 2020Submission Checks Completed
21 Jul 2020Assigned to Editor
05 Aug 2020Reviewer(s) Assigned
03 Sep 2020Editorial Decision: Revise Major
22 Sep 20201st Revision Received
06 Oct 2020Submission Checks Completed
06 Oct 2020Assigned to Editor
30 Oct 2020Reviewer(s) Assigned
23 Nov 2020Editorial Decision: Revise Major
25 Nov 20202nd Revision Received
29 Nov 2020Submission Checks Completed
29 Nov 2020Assigned to Editor
01 Dec 2020Reviewer(s) Assigned
21 Dec 2020Editorial Decision: Accept
13 Jan 2021Published in AIChE Journal. 10.1002/aic.17171