Stacked autoencoder for operation prediction of coke dry quenching process

Coke dry quenching (CDQ) is widely adopted for waste heat recovery in iron and steel plants. In this work, an economic benefit index was introduced to evaluate the performance of the CDQ system and stacked autoencoder (SAE) based deep neural networks are adopted for CDQ operation prediction. Based on the prediction results, a guidance is provided for online adjustment of the supplementary air flow rate, hence the efficiency and safety of the CDQ system can be improved. The case study on a real plant shows that the proposed method increases the economic efficiency of the CDQ process by 4.39%.