MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTRACTION OFLIGNOSULFONATE FROM BARLEY STRAW BY USINGARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been applied tomodel dynamic systems from a wide range of areas. Inparticular, we are interested in the application of ANN infitting data sets to model the extraction process oflignosulfonates from barley straw. In order to know realdata about the percentage of delignification taking intoaccount three variables from the experimental process:cooking time of the barley straw, percentage of sulfiteconcentration applied to the barley straw, and barley size.With the data gathered from 75 experiments performedthree times each one, we created an ANN optimal with aminimum mse, and we calculate an optimal value fromthis ANN model.