A comprehensive data set on experimental solubility of 210 solid solutes in supercritical CO ₂ counting 5550 data points has been used for comparison of the correlation performance of 21 empirical models. On the basis of the comparison results a new eight-parameter density-based model has been proposed. The comparison shows that the three-parameter models are the least accurate. The results also show that models that relate the logarithm of the solubility to the logarithm of solvent density and temperature are more accurate than models that include the pressure. When comparing the overall correlating performance in terms of average absolute relative deviation the proposed model is by far the best with an average absolute relative deviation lying in the range 0.17–81.99% and an average value of 8.88%.

Quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) technique provides a suitable tool to predict the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of Gemini surfactants from their structure descriptors. In this study, a comparative work was conducted to model the CMC property of 211 diverse Gemini surfactants based on their structural characteristics using linear and non-linear quantitative structure?property relationship models. Least squares model (OLS) and partial least squares (PLS) against k-nearest neighbours regression model (KNN), artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR) have been developed to model the CMC. Molecular descriptors were calculated and screened to remove unsuitable descriptors and improve the learning. Results indicate that the improved performance of support vector regression when the hyper-parameters are optimized using Dragonfly algorithm (SVR-DA) was highly capable of predicting the pCMC (-log CMC) values with an average absolute relative deviation (AARD) of 0.666 and coefficient of determination (R?) of 0.9971 for the global dataset.

In the rapidly developing field of smart cities, accurately predicting weather conditions plays a vital role in various sectors, including industry, tourism, agriculture, social planning, architecture, and economic development. Unfortunately, the instruments used (such as pyranometers, barometers, and thermometers) often suffer from low accuracy, high computational costs, and a lack of robustness. This limitation affects the reliability of weather predictions and their application across these critical areas. This study proposes artificial neural network-multilayer perceptrons (ANN-MLPs). A dataset of 480 data points was used, with 80% allocated for the training phase, 10% for the validation phase, and 10% for the testing phase. The best results were obtained with the structure 6-17-1 (6 inputs, 17 hidden neurons, and 1 output neuron) to predict weather condition data in the Ghardaïa district. Weather conditions parameters include air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and cumulative precipitation. Results showed that the most relevant input factors are, in order of importance: earth-sun distance (DT-S) with a relative importance (RI) of 31.10%, factor conversion (d) with an RI of 26.05%, and solar radiation (SR) with an RI of 16.26%. The contribution of the elevation of the sun (HI) has an RI of 13.29%. The optimal configuration includes seventeen neurons in the hidden layer with a logistic sigmoid activation function and a Levenberg–Marquardt learning algorithm, resulting in a root mean square error (RMSE) of 3.3043% and a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.9683. The proposed model can predict both short- and long-term climate factors such as solar radiation, air temperature, and wind energy in areas with similar conditions.