OBJECT-ORIENTED FERROMANGANESE FURNACE MODEL

The high-carbon ferromanganese furnace is a semi-continuous unit proce ss, with a number of complex, and partly unknown mechanisms taking pla ce inside it. The furnace operation has been characterized by fluctuat ions in vital process variables. Many of the operational problems are caused by the lack of information about the internal conditions. This paper presents an object-oriented model of the furnace and its future application in monitoring the furnace conditions. The object-orientati on ensures that the model becomes easy to modify as new process knowle dge is collected.