Operating performance assessment based on multi-source heterogeneous information with deep learning for smelting process of electro-fused magnesium furnace

The process operating performance assessment is critical for the smelting process of electro-fused magnesium furnaces to improve quality of the magnesia product and pursue optimal comprehensive economic benefit. This paper proposes a new method of multi-source heterogeneous information deep feature fusion (MSHIDFF) to achieve higher accuracy operating performance assessment in the electro-fused magnesium smelting process. Firstly, we utilize convolutional neural network, bidirectional long short-term memory network and stacked auto-encoder to extract deep features from raw image, sound and current of different performance grades. Furthermore, those multi-source deep features are fused and the softmax regression with attention mechanism is employed to train a neural network classifier for the fused deep features of different performance grades. The simulation results show that the proposed MSHIDFF method obtains the superior assessment accuracy. (C) 2021 ISA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.