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\nPolymer properties such as density, melt index, and melt flow rate must be kept within tight specifications for each grade. This case study is to analyze polymer production data to predict melt flow rate.0:00 Introduction to Polymer...\nPolymer properties such as density, melt index, and melt flow rate must be kept within tight specifications for each grade. This case study is to analyze polymer production data to predict melt flow rate.

0:00 Introduction to Polymer Regression
5:35 Jupyter Notebooks
6:43 Machine Learning Map
8:40 Part 1 Analyze Data
15:10 Part 2 Visualize Data
22:40 Part 3 Prepare Data
32:05 Part 4 Regression
47:00 Part 5: TensorFlow
47:52 Part 5: PyTorch
48:27 Summary

Background: There are gas phase and liquid slurry reactors that create polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and others) from chemical building blocks known as monomers (C2=, C3=, C4=, iC5=, and others). A catalyst is injected with the monomers under carefully controlled temperature and pressure conditions to cause a reaction that grows the polymer chains. Hydrogen is a chain transfer agent to stop the growth of the polymer chain. If the polymer chains grow too long then the polymer is too viscous for manufacturing in films, injection molding, or other applications. If the polymer chains are too short then the polymer is soft and does not have the strength for the particular application such as a plastic bag, a car bumper, or washing machine drum. Regular lab samples from the reactor are used to keep the polymer at the right viscosity for each particular grade. The grade is specified by the customer and may include specifications for:

Melt Index (Polyethylene)
Melt Flow Rate (Polypropylene)
Density
Xylene Solubles (Measure of Polymer Crystallinity)

This case study focuses on measurements of Melt Flow Rate (MFR) to determine the polymer viscosity based on reactor conditions. An accurate model is desirable so that the infrequent lab samples (every 2-8 hours) are supplemented with a virtual and continuous \"soft sensor\". A model that runs in real-time simulation along side the physical reactor is called a digital twin.

Objective: Develop a prediction of the reactor MFR from the polymer reactor data set. Report the correlation coefficient (R2) for predicting ln(MFR) in the test set. Randomly select values that split the data into a train (80%) and test (20%) set. Use Linear Regression, Neural Network (Deep Learning), and another regression method of your choice. Discuss the performance of each. Submit source code and a summary memo (max 2 pages) of your results.\n
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2021
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box plot, linear regression, plastic, density
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apmonitor, polymer, unipol, reactor, properties, xylene solubles, melt index, melt flow rate, pair plot, fluidized bed, natural log, neural network, feature engineering, bit smaller, mfr versus, strong correlation, standard scaler, poly fit, black line, sikit learn, linear layer, pie torch, machine learning, supervised learning, numpy array, statistical methods, test set, nearest neighbors, tensor flow, joint plot, hydrogen ratio, high correlation, highly correlated, high mfr, mfr regression, data set
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