A model-based expert control strategy using neural networks for the coal blending process in an iron and steel plant

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-281

  Wu, Min ^a   Nakano, Michio ^a   She, Jin Hua ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Engineering Univ   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coal blending process; Expert systems; Mathematical models; Neural networks; Process control; Rule models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000943615     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(98)00076-1     Document Type: Article

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