Modelling of electrical energy consumption in an electric arc furnace using artificial neural networks

Energy

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 132-139

  Gajic, Dragoljub ^a,b   Savic Gajic, Ivana ^c,d   Savic, Ivan ^c,d   Georgieva, Olga ^b   Di Gennaro, Stefano ^d  

^a University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electric arc furnace; Electrical energy consumption; Modeling; Multilayer perceptron; Scrap optimization

Indexed keywords

ALLOY STEEL; CARBON; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC FURNACE PROCESS; ELECTRIC FURNACES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; MODELS; MULTILAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL SCRAP; TAPPING (FURNACE);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE; ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HYPERBOLIC TANGENT FUNCTION; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; OPTIMAL NEURAL NETWORK; PROCESS CONTROL STRATEGIES;

FURNACES;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EQUIPMENT COMPONENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH WORK; STEEL;

ITALY;

EID: 84938631478     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.068     Document Type: Article

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