Economic evaluation and design of an electric arc furnace controller based on economic objectives

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-265

  Oosthuizen, D J ^a   Craig, I K ^b   Pistorius, P C ^b  

^a Measurement and Control division   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Economic design; Model predictive control; Priority; Simulation; Statistical analysis; Steel industry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC ARCS; FURNACES; MANUAL CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC ARC FURNACES; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC);

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

ECONOMICS; FURNACE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 1142268896     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(03)00078-9     Document Type: Article

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