On the Prediction of Nitrogen Oxides From Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers Using Neural Networks
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Abstract
This paper describes a method of predicting the oxides of nitrogen emissions from gas turbine combustion chambers using neural networks. A short review of existing empirical models is undertaken and the reasoning behind the choice of correlation variables and mathematical formulations is presented. This review showed that the mathematical functions obtained from the underlying theory used to develop the semi-empirical model ultimately limit their general applicability. Under these conditions, obtaining a semi-empirical model with a large domain and good accuracy is difficult. An overview of the use of neural networks as a modelling tool is given. Using over 2000 data points, a neural network that can predict NOx emissions with greater accuracy than published correlations was developed. The coefficients of determination of the prediction for the previous published semi-empirical models are 0.8048 and 0.7885. However one tends to grossly overpredict and the other underpredict. The coefficient of determination is 0.8697 for the model using a neural network. Because of the nature of neural networks, this more accurate model does not allow better insight into the physical and chemical phenomena. It is however, a useful tool for the initial design of combustion chambers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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