Forecasting of silicon content in blast furnace (BF) hot metal has always been an important tool in the control of iron-making process. To get an accurate prediction of silicon content is an urgent task for BF operators. The approach based on generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) has been introduced to predict step-ahead silicon content in BF hot metal. The algorithm ha...

A new developed and designed real-time expert intelligent control system (REICS) for industrial process control has been introduced. The global architectures of the hardware and software of the system have been proposed. A multi-level method of knowledge representation based on the combination of frame, production rules and real-time procedures has been discussed, and used to represent the cont...

The goal of the latest strategy in glass companies is to decrease the cost of production while maintaining or increasing the glass quality. There are several perspective ways leading to this goal: Optimization of the heating system, Modification of the furnace design, or Installing the new advanced control system. Optimization of the heating system can be achieved by installing modern burner sy...

Fired steam generators are the dominating technology of coal combustion in power plants. This paper presents a model for pulverized coal fired steam generators in Modelica. The model components are designed as an extension of SiemensPower, a Modelica library for transient simulation of power plants. The focus is on coal combustion, gas-particle-flow and radiation heat transfer in the furnace. T...

This paper concerns the mathematical modelling and numerical solution of thermoelectrical phenomena taking place in an axisymmetric induction heating furnace. We formulate the problem in a two-dimensional domain and propose a finite element method and an iterative algorithm for its numerical solution. We also provide a family of one-dimensional analytical solutions which are used to test the tw...

Power quality is becoming a more concern of today’s power system engineer due to rapid growth of non-linear loads in distribution network. Electrical Arc Furnace (EAF) is one of the responsible causes for deteriorating power quality in the distribution network. Hence electric arc furnace model is needed to study and to analyze the power quality in the distribution network. This paper presents a...

The design of system for operative planning of blast furnace production process in VSŽ inc. Kosice A system for operative planning of blast furnace production process is described in the paper. The suggested system is based on the use of a new hierarchy of operative plans, consisting of one-month plan, (7+3) days plan, and 24-hour plan. The system allows smoothing of production process at the b...

air cooled blast furnace slag is a by product made of gradually air cooled molten blast furnace slag, and is often stored in stockpiles near the iron mills and usually occupy a wide area around the iron mills. from this perspective the further use of these materials can have its own merits. air cooled blast furnace slag can be used in asphalt mixtures because of their proper frictional properti...