Aritifical neueal network technology for data processing of naphthenic acid corrosion

Aritifical neueal network (ANN) technology for the data processing of naphthenic acid corrosion is proposed after analyzing the general method for naphthenic acid corrosion. A metabolism model for predicting the corrosion life with ANN is presented, which does not need all kind parameters of materials and environments and only need some of data of relevantparameters of them such as temperature, naphthenic acid content and velocity, characteristics and corrosion rate of mateials in service. The feasibility of the model was verified by the data from literatures. It is proved that the ANN technology is applicable to the evaluation of the complicated system of naphthenic acid corrosion, and also gives a base to develop the expert system and residual life evaluation system for naphthenic acid corrosion.