Fuel Ratio Optimization of Blast Furnace Based on Data Mining

Abstract

Despite the age of the process, the blast furnace (BF) ironmaking is still crucial to iron and steel industry. To improve the competitiveness of enterprises, fuel ratio (FR) in BF ironmaking process needs to be kept its lowest level possibly. In the work, a prediction model was established to predict FR of the BF by using feature selection and support vector regression (SVR). GA-SVR (genetic algorithm - SVR) method was employed to select the most informative five features from the candidate features.The experimental results indicated that the SVR model brought high learning precision and excellent prediction generalization ability. To explore and discover the laws of BF production, the influences of the five features on FR were discussed by simulation analysis of the model. All the calculations were performed on the computational platform of data mining developed by us. The work can provide guides for the operators on modulating input parameters in advance. The methods outlined here can provide valuable hints into revealing mechanisms of BF ironmaking process and realizing controlled production of BF with guidance of quantitative analysis methods.