Process monitoring by use of multivariate projection methods has received increasing attention as it can reduce the monitoring problem for richly instrumented industrial processes with many correlated variables. This article discusses the monitoring and control of a continuously operating experimental blast furnace (EBF). A case study outlines the need for monitoring and control of the EBF and ...

It is important to measure the burden surface temperature of blast furnace (BF) since it can indicate the gas flow distribution and provide instruction for BF operation. The measuring system configuration based on multi-source information fusion is given in this paper to solve the problem of temperature filed measuring in BF. As a result, the multi-source information feature extraction and fusi...

Concurrently to research conducted on ordinary Portland cement (PC), new types of binders were developed during the last decades. These are formed by alkali-activation of metakaolin or ground-granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) and are named, respectively, geopolymers (GP) or alkali-activated slag (AAS). Four different cementitious materials were synthesised: PC, AAS, GP, and a mix GP-AAS and...