Wiener Model Identification of Blast Furnace Ironmaking Process

To account for the nonlinearity of blast furnace ironmaking process, a nonlinear Wiener model identification algorithm is presented. The system consists of a linear time invariant (LTI) subsystem followed by a static nonlinearity. The inverse of the nonlinearity is assumed to be a linear combination of known nonlinear basis functions and the linear subspace algorithm is used to identify the model. The inputs to the model are parameters regarded to be most responsible for the fluctuation of thermal state in blast furnace while the output to the model is silicon content in hot metal. The identified Wiener model is then tested on datasets obtained from No. 6 Blast Furnace from Baotou Steel. It is found that the blast furnace of concern is a short memory system, so that for each prediction the Wiener method is retrained. It is shown that the retrained model well improves the predictive accuracy.