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.