GA-RBF model for prediction of dew point pressure in gas condensate reservoirs

This study presents the application of an intelligent algorithm in estimation of dew point pressure (DPP) of gas condensate systems. Radial Basis Function (RBF) network in conjunction with Genetic Algorithm (GA) as an optimization algorithm was utilized for this aim. The performance of the proposed GA-RBF model was investigated by statistical and graphical analysis of results. The analysis show that the implemented model is precise and robust in prediction of experimental DPP data. Furthermore, the GA-RBF model was compared with a literature intelligent approach (GEP model) as well as three well-known correlations. The comparison reveals that the GA-RBF model is superior to other model and correlations and successfully improves the predictions. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.