Blast Furnace Gas Utilization Rate Prediction Model based on Northern Goshawk Optimization and Long Short-Term Memory in Massive Data Set

Abstract

Affected by the global New Crown Pneumonia epidemic, energy prices in the global market continue to rise. The high quality production and energy saving of steel companies have become an important task. The blast furnace is the front-end core of the steel manufacturing process. The blast furnace gas utilization rate can effectively characterize the internal airflow distribution, blast furnace operation and energy consumption level of the blast furnace. The blast furnace Gas Utilization Rate (GUR) can effectively characterize the internal airflow distribution, blast furnace operation and energy consumption level. Most of the existing studies are based on data-driven models. The shallow neural network model is selected. But blast furnace iron making has complex uncertainty. Massive data samples under industrial information technology need to be processed. The robustness and generalization ability of the prediction model are not satisfactory. To address the above problems, this paper proposes a prediction model based on NGO-LSTM regression. The model parameter searchs can be intelligently. It achieves high-precision prediction results for massive data samples. Firstly, the selection of feature parameters is completed by maximal information coefficient. Secondly, the strong coupling of blast furnace ground needs to fully predict the relationship between the characteristic parameters. The Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network with certain memory capability is selected. And multiple parameters of this neural network model are optimized by the Northern Goshawk Optimization (NGO) algorithm. An NGO-LSTM regression prediction model is established. In this paper, experiments are carried out using actual production data. The experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately predict the blast furnace gas utilization rate. This can provide a reference for improving blast furnace product quality, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.