Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The development and on-line trial of an expert system for heat balance control of an iron blast furnace
- In
- Chemeca 92: The Impact of Government Policy on the Process Industries; Official Conference Proceedings
- Imprint
- 1992, pp. 426-433
- Description
[This paper was awarded the John A Brodie Medal 1992]
- Abstract
Control of the blast furnaces operation is mainly manual. Shortcomings of manual control are well known and expert systems are seen as a viable solution. A knowledge-based Operator Guidance System (OGS) for heat balance control of an iron blast furnace has been developed and tested on-line. Quality of heat control changes during the trial appeared to be significantly better than with manual control practices. Development of the OGS and results of the trial are presented here.
