title: Robust estimation of thermodynamic parameters (ΔH, ΔS and ΔCp) for prediction of retention time in gas chromatography - Part II (Application).
abstract: For this work, an analysis of parameter estimation for the retention factor in GC model was performed, considering two different criteria: sum of square error, and maximum error in absolute value; relevant statistics are described for each case. The main contribution of this work is the implementation of an initialization scheme (specialized) for the estimated parameters, which features fast convergence (low computational time) and is based on knowledge of the surface of the error criterion. In an application to a series of alkanes, specialized initialization resulted in significant reduction to the number of evaluations of the objective function (reducing computational time) in the parameter estimation. The obtained reduction happened between one and two orders of magnitude, compared with the simple random initialization.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Controle de Processos, Departamento de Engenharia Química e de Alimentos, Centro Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), PO Box 476, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil. Electronic address: carlos.claumann@prosgrad.ufsc.br.
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Claumann
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informática e Estatística (INE), Centro Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil. Electronic address: azibetti@gmail.com.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wüst Zibetti
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Controle de Processos, Departamento de Engenharia Química e de Alimentos, Centro Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), PO Box 476, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil. Electronic address: ariovaldo.bolzan@ufsc.br.
authors.forename: Ariovaldo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bolzan
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Controle de Processos, Departamento de Engenharia Química e de Alimentos, Centro Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), PO Box 476, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil. Electronic address: ricardo.machado@ufsc.br.
authors.forename: Ricardo A F
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Neuroengenharia Computacional, Departamento de Engenharia Química e de Alimentos, Centro Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), PO Box 476, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil. Electronic address: leonel.t.pinto@ufsc.br.
authors.forename: Leonel Teixeira
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Pinto
mesh_terms: D000473:Alkanes / Q000032:analysis; D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D000473:Alkanes
keywords: Gas chromatography; Initialization method; Optimization; Parameter estimation; Retention time; Thermodynamic properties