(255c) Building Deep Learning Based Predictive Model and Advisory Control System for a Blast Furnace Operation
AIChE Annual Meeting
2017
2017 Annual Meeting
Computing and Systems Technology Division
Advances in Data Analysis, Information Management, and Intelligent Systems I
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - 8:38am to 8:57am
In this work, we applied various ML and DL techniques to develop predictive models that can accurately predict status of a complex manufacturing process, a blast furnace operation of steel manufacturing process. A blast furnace is a complex operation that involves multiple chemical reactions and phase transitions of materials, which are difficult to model using first principle equations. At the same time, because of the complex multiscale nature of the process, in which the response time of the input materials, such as iron ore, coke, oxygen, water, pulverized coal (PC), etc., have wide variations from order of minutes to hours, it is very difficult to develop a data-driven model in the conventional machine-learning approaches. Here, a time-series prediction DL model, called Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), is employed to build a predictive model. Particularly, we use the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network [1], which is capable of learning multi-scale temporal dependency structures, to build models for predicting key state variables of the blast furnace operation. The LSTM seems to capture complex non-linear dynamics well and is shown to outperform conventional ML algorithms, such as Sparse Linear Model (LASSO), Decision Tree, Gradient Boosting, and Gaussian Processes, in the prediction of blast furnace status.
We describe the modeling approach and architectures of LSTM models for predicting several key response variables of the blast furnace operation, and prediction accuracy. A formulation of model predictive control (MPC) model that computes the optimal set points of key control variables of the blast furnace is also presented.
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