This project is a study of the Polymer Melt Flow Rate (MFR) and the correlation with other labels, and the main research purpose is to find the best ML algorithm to predict MFR based on the dataset in this link: http://apmonitor.com/pds/index.php/Main/PolymerMeltFlowRate This project is a contribution to this github repo: https://github.com/APMonitor/pds/tree/main/MFR_Regression
There are gas phase and liquid slurry reactors that create polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and others) from chemical building blocks known as monomers (C2=, C3=, C4=, iC5=, and others). A catalyst is injected with the monomers under carefully controlled temperature and pressure conditions to cause a reaction that grows the polymer chains. Hydrogen is a chain transfer agent to stop the growth of the polymer chain. If the polymer chains grow too long then the polymer is too viscous for manufacturing in films, injection molding, or other applications.
Please do not hesitate to contribute to this project.
Emily Elzinga (emilyelzinga@isu.edu) Hamza Kaddour (hamzakaddour@isu.edu) Andre Sovic (andresovic@isu.edu)