Burden Control Strategy Based on Reinforcement Learning for Gas Utilization Rate in Blast Furnace ?

摘要

Gas utilization rate (GUR) is an important state parameter to reflect the energy consumption, the quality and production of the pig iron, and the distribution of the gas flow in a blast furnace. The GUR is mainly adjusted by burden distribution and hot-blast supply. According to the analysis of mechanism and data, burden distribution and hot-blast supply affect the GUR on a long-time scale and short-time scale, respectively. However, few of the previous researches proposed the control method for the GUR and they did not consider multi-time-scale characteristics. Thus, it is necessary to design a control strategy or system for the GUR considering the multi-time-scale characteristics, which can make the GUR have a reasonable development trend. This paper presented a burden control strategy based on a reinforcement learning algorithm for the GUR. The method improved the development trend of the GUR on a long-time scale. The experimental results demonstrated that the sequence of the parameters of the burden distribution given by the presented method ensured a reasonable development trend of the GUR on a long-time scale.