15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
CARBON ESTIMATION OF STEEL IN A BOF WITH NOISE ATTENUATION
Jesus Gonzalez1, Miguel Angel Barron2
1 Departamento de Sistemas,
2 Departamento de Materiales
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco
Apdo. Postal 75-338, Col. Lindavista,
07300 Mexico, D.F., México
1 e-mail:gtji@correo.azc.uam.mx

The estimation problem of carbon content of molten steel in a Basic Oxygen Furnace is addressed in this work. It is assumed that only measurements of carbon monoxide content of off-gas are available. Given that such measurements are corrupted with noise, determining the carbon from the thermodynamic equilibrium relationship yields poor results. Due to this, an integral estimator with noise attenuation is proposed. Results of numerical simulations show a good agreement between the actual carbon content and the estimated value.
Keywords: BOF process, carbon content, noise attenuation, noisy measurements, steelmaking
Session slot T-Th-A12: Control Applications in Blast Furnace and LD Converter Operations/Area code 7b : Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing