Prediction method of hot metal silicon content based on improved GA-BP neural network
The silicon content in molten iron during the ironmaking process in a blast furnace has been an important indicator of the furnace's thermal state for a long time.However,predicting the silicon content in real-time is extremely difficult due to the dynamic nature of the blast furnace and the complex internal chemical reactions that occur within it.To address this issue,a GA-BP neural network for predicting the silicon content in molten iron by improving the traditional BP algorithm using genetic algorithms(GA)was proposed.Firstly,feature extraction is performed on 13 parameters(such as air volume,air pressure,etc.)during the blast furnace ironmaking process.A genetic algorithm is used to globally search for the optimal initial weights and thresholds of the BP neural network.Then,the forward propagation algorithm(FP)is used to transmit the selected features in the three-layer neural network and calculate the predicted values.The number of neurons in each layer of the three-layer neural network is 7,50,and 1,respectively.Finally,an error analysis was conducted between the predicted silicon content in molten iron and that of the actual value,using the principle of Gradient Descent(GD)to continuously update the weights of neural network until the error between the predicted value and the actual value reached the given threshold.Compared to traditional BP neural networks,GA-BP neural networks improve the shortcomings of BP neural networks,such as difficult to determine weights and thresholds,slow learning speed,and easy to fall into local optima.After preprocessing the real-time data collected during the production process of a certain steel plant,it is input into a neural network for training and the accuracy of the model is verified using a test set.In the end,the model achieved an accuracy of 92%on the test set and a stable Mean Square Error(MSE)of 0.001,proving the effectiveness of the model.New data outside of 50 datasets for prediction were selected,and the results verified that the model has the ability to guide production practice.