Application of neural network techniques for modeling of blast furnace parameters

This thesis discusses the predictions of various output variables in a blast furnace. It compares the ability of multi-layer perceptron neural networks for prediction with other blast furnace prediction techniques. The output variables: Hot Metal Temperature, Silicon Content, Slag Basicity, RDI, and +10 are all modeled using the MLP networks. Different solutions are proposed for preprocessing the original data and finding the most relevant input variables. The NNRUN software is used to find the best MLP neural network. Finally, methods to control the output variables in the blast furnace are examined and a derivative-based sensitivity analysis is discussed.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2000

Author dc:creator

• Dhond, Anjali, 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nishikant Sonwalker.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17490

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/17490