Evolutionary neural network modeling of blast furnace burden distribution

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-399

  Pettersson, Frank ^a   Hinnelä, Jan ^a   Saxén, Henrik ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blast furnace; Burden distribution; Burden layer thickness; Evolutionary training; Genetic algorithm; Network architecture selection; Neural network

Indexed keywords

BURDEN (METALLURGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

BLAST FURNACES;

EID: 0041653535     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/AMP-120022017     Document Type: Article

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