A review of mathematical process models for the electric arc furnace process

T Hay, VV Visuri, M Aula… - steel research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The electric arc furnace is the main process unit in scrap‐based steelmaking. Owing to its
importance, numerous mathematical models for predicting the course of the electric arc …

Basic oxygen steelmaking slag: formation, reaction, and energy and material recovery

Z Li, J Li, S Spooner… - steel research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) slag, a product of hot metal element (eg, Si, Mn, Fe, P)
oxidation and flux (eg lime, dolomite) dissolution, plays a critical role in the production of …

A novel dynamic operation optimization method based on multiobjective deep reinforcement learning for steelmaking process

C Liu, L Tang, C Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies a dynamic operation optimization problem for a steelmaking process.
The problem is defined to determine optimal operation parameters that bring smelting …

Comparison of the Prediction of BOF End‐Point Phosphorus Content Among Machine Learning Models and Metallurgical Mechanism Model

R Zhang, J Yang, S Wu, H Sun… - steel research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The five machine learning models (MLM) of ridge regression, gradient boosting regression
(GBR), support vector regression, random forest regression (RFR), convolutional neural …

Kinetics of dephosphorization at different slag basicities in the double slag converter steelmaking process

R Zhang, J Yang, H Sun, W Yang - steel research international, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Combined with the temperature model from heat balance and the lime dissolution model,
the dephosphorization kinetic model based on the coupled reaction model for the …

Dynamic modeling and simulation of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) operation

D Dering, C Swartz, N Dogan - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) are widely used to produce steel from hot metal. The process
typically has limited automation which leads to sub-optimal operation. Economically optimal …

Dynamic model of basic oxygen steelmaking process based on multizone reaction kinetics: Modeling of decarburization

BK Rout, G Brooks, M Akbar Rhamdhani, Z Li… - … Materials Transactions B, 2018 - Springer
In a previous study by the authors (Rout et al. in Metall Mater Trans B 49: 537–557, 2018), a
dynamic model for the BOF, employing the concept of multizone kinetics was developed. In …

A dynamic optimization framework for basic oxygen furnace operation

D Dering, CLE Swartz, N Dogan - Chemical Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
About 70% of the steel used worldwide is produced via the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF).
This process has limited automation, and normal operation relies on invaluable operators' …

Contribution of Hot-Spot Zone in Decarburization of BOF Steel-Making: Fundamental Analysis Based upon the FactSage-Macro Program

P Singha, AK Shukla - Metals, 2022 - mdpi.com
An improved computational model to describe the decarburization process in basic oxygen
furnaces for steel making is presented in this work. A dynamic model was thus developed to …

Kinetic model of dephosphorization in the new double slag converter steelmaking process

R Zhang, J Yang, W Yang, H Sun - Ironmaking & Steelmaking, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The kinetic investigation of the dephosphorization in the new double slag converter
steelmaking process was carried out based on the coupled reactions model combining with …