A combined heat transfer and genetic algorithm modeling of an integrated steel plant bloom re-heating furnace
Abstract
: This paper presents a modeling study of preheating of blooms in a fuel fired furnace using a combined GA and heat transfer formulation. A re-heating furnace containing three asymmetrically placed burners are considered in this study, which is a typical configuration used in many integrated steel plants. This study shows that the GA is an ideally suited tool for studying such complex problems. 1 INTRODUCTION Bloom re-heating is an integral feature of most of the integrated steel plants. An efficient design of such furnaces is an essential requirement for cost saving in this energy intensive operation. During this study a typical bloom re-heating furnace design was considered for modeling using a combined GA and heat transfer formulation. The aim of this analysis is to identify a set of properly optimized operational parameters for the furnace which would lead to the necessary temperature profile in the bloom using a minimum amount of fuel burn-off. We also wanted our modeling work no...
Authors: Kalyanmoy Deb, Nirupam Chakraborti