Prediction of SO2 and NOx in sintering flue gas based on PSO-BP neural network model

Abstract

ABSTRACT In the long process of iron and steel, the sintering process has the largest amount of flue gas emissions, many types of pollutants and high concentrations. The source control of SO2 and NOx in sintering flue gas through digital technology has become a new emission reduction technology. In this study, the BP neural network model (BP-NN) is optimized by using the particle swarm algorithm (PSO) to form the PSO-BPNN model, which effectively improves the characteristics of BP-NN with slow convergence speed and easily falls into local minima, and improves the learning ability and generalization. The test results show that the PSO-BP-NN algorithm not only has fast convergence speed and high prediction accuracy, but also has smaller training and inspection errors. In addition, this model combines process theory and feature engineering selection of parameters, which effectively improves the accuracy of the model and the interpretability of the results based on the linkage of process knowledge, and has certain analytical significance for the source management and post-treatment of sintered flue gas.