Estimation of the Particle Size Distribution of Colloids from Multiangle Dynamic Light Scattering Measurements with Particle Swarm Optimization

BERMEO, LEONARDO B.; CAICEDO, EDUARDO; CLEMENTI, LUIS A.; VEGA JORGE R.

Ingeniería e Investigación

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Lugar: Bogotá; Año: 2015 vol. 35 p. 49 - 54

0120-5609

In this paper particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms are applied to estimate the particle size distribution (PSD) of a colloidal system from the average PSD diameters, which are measured by multi-angle dynamic light scattering. The system is considered a nonlinear inverse problem, and for this reason the estimation procedure requires a Tikhonov regularization method. The inverse problem is solved through several PSO strategies. The evaluated PSOs are tested through three simulated examples corresponding to polysty-rene (PS) latexes with different PSDs, and two experimental examples obtained by simply mixing 2 PS standards. In general, the evalu-ation results of the PSOs are excellent; and particularly, the PSO with the Trelea?s parameter set shows a better performance than other implemented PSOs.