Print Email Facebook Twitter Prediction of Soluble Al2O3 in Calcined Kaolin Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration Title Prediction of Soluble Al2O3 in Calcined Kaolin Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration Author Guatame-Garcia, Adriana (TU Delft Resource Engineering) Buxton, M.W.N. (TU Delft Resource Engineering) Date 2018-03-26 Abstract In the production of calcined kaolin, the soluble Al2O3 content is used as a quality control criterion for some speciality applications. The increasing need for automated quality control systems in the industry has brought the necessity of developing techniques that provide (near) real-time data. Based on the understanding that the presence of water in the calcined kaolin detected using infrared spectroscopy can be used as a proxy for the soluble Al2O3 measurement, in this study, a hand-held infrared spectrometer was used to analyse a set of calcined kaolin samples obtained from a production plant. The spectra were used to predict the amount of soluble Al2O3 in the samples by implementing Partial Least Squares regression (PLS-R) and Support Vector Regression (SVR) as multivariate calibration methods. The presence of non-linearities in the dataset and the different types of association between water and the calcined kaolin represented the main challenges for developing a good calibration. In general, SVR showed a better performance than PLS-R, with Root Mean Squared Error of the cross-validation (RMSECV) = 0.046 wt.% and R2 = 0.87 for the best-achieved prediction. This accuracy level is adequate for detecting variation trends in the production of calcined kaolin which could be used not only as a quality control strategy but also for the optimisation of the calcination process. Subject soluble Al2O3calcined kaolinmultivariate calibrationSupport vector regressionPartial least squares regressionInfrared spectroscopyOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bdb9c229-f213-4dd0-989e-6bbc77510186 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/min8040136 ISSN 2075-163X Source Minerals - Open Access Mining & Mineral Processing Journal, 8 (4) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Adriana Guatame-Garcia, M.W.N. Buxton Files PDF minerals_08_00136.pdf 1.5 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bdb9c229-f213-4dd0-989e-6bbc77510186/datastream/OBJ/view