Blast furnace control by hierarchical similarity search in historical data

Lucas L. Amorim, Filipe Wall Mutz, Thiago M. Paixão, Vinicius Rampinelli, Alberto F. De Souza, Claudine Badue, Thiago Oliveira-Santos

Abstract: Highlights•A model-free blast furnace control system based on historical data is presented.•Machine learning models are used to simulate real blast furnaces for evaluation.•Evaluation is performed using real data and several target temperatures.•Convergence to lower error values for all models in the typical temperature range.