Neural modelling of Mooney viscosity of polybutadiene rubber

Mooney viscosity is one of the important quality properties of polybutadiene rubber (PBR). It is important to implement appropriate measures to maintain and guarantee a uniform product quality required by the rubber processing industries. One major step towards quality assurance is the on line quality prediction of the product from the process parameters. This can be accomplished by developing a reliable model that predicts product quality as a function of process parameters. Artificial neural networks (ANN), which are capable of mapping highly complex and non-linear dependencies, have been adapted to develop models to predict Mooney and solution viscosity of PBR from process v f T d ©