Exhaust emissions

We acquire data for training and testing the proposed ANN, a four-cylinder, four-stroke test engine
was fuelled with gasoline having various octane numbers (91, 93, 95 and 95.3), and operated at
different engine speeds and torques. Using some of the experimental data for training, an ANN
model based on standard back-propagation algorithm for the engine was developed. Then, the
performance of the ANN predictions were measured by comparing the predictions with the
experimental results which were not used in the training process. It was observed that the ANN
model can predict the engine performance, exhaust emissions and exhaust gas temperature quite
well with correlation coefficients in the range of 0.983–0.996, mean relative errors in the range of
1.41–6.66% and very low root mean square errors. This study shows that, as an alternative to
classical modelling techniques, the ANN approach can be used to accurately predict the performance
and emissions of internal combustion engines.