Multi‐Objective Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming Models for Minimizing Input Carbon Rates in a Blast Furnace Compared with a Conventional Analytic Approach

Abstract

Data‐driven models were constructed for the Productivity, CO 2 emission, and Si content for an operational Blast furnace using evolutionary approaches that involved two recent strategies based upon bi‐objective genetic Programming and neural nets evolving through Genetic Algorithms. The models were utilized to compute the optimum tradeoff between the level of CO 2 emission and productivity at different Si levels, using a Predator–Prey Genetic Algorithm, well tested for computing the Pareto‐optimality. The results were pitted against some similar calculations performed with commercial softwares and also compared with the results of thermodynamics‐based analytical models.