Modeling and Optimizing Energy Utilization of Steel Production Process : A Hybrid Petri Net Approach

Abstract EN

The steel industry is responsible for nearly 9% of anthropogenic energy utilization in the world.

It is urgent to reduce the total energy utilization of steel industry under the huge pressures on reducing energy consumption and CO2 emission.

Meanwhile, the steel manufacturing is a typical continuous-discrete process with multiprocedures, multiobjects, multiconstraints, and multimachines coupled, which makes energy management rather difficult.

In order to study the energy flow within the real steel production process, this paper presents a new modeling and optimization method for the process based on Hybrid Petri Nets (HPN) in consideration of the situation above.

Firstly, we introduce the detailed description of HPN.

Then the real steel production process from one typical integrated steel plant is transformed into Hybrid Petri Net model as a case.

Furthermore, we obtain a series of constraints of our optimization model from this model.

In consideration of the real process situation, we pick the steel production, energy efficiency and self-made gas surplus as the main optimized goals in this paper.

Afterwards, a fuzzy linear programming method is conducted to obtain the multiobjective optimization results.

Finally, some measures are suggested to improve this low efficiency and high whole cost process structure.