1. A dynamic modeling method using channel-selection convolutional neural network: A case study of NOx emission.
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Wang, Zhi, Peng, Xianyong, Zhou, Huaichun, Cao, Shengxian, Huang, Wenbo, Yan, Weijie, Li, Kuangyu, and Fan, Siyuan
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *COAL-fired boilers , *DYNAMIC models , *DEEP learning - Abstract
A novel channel-selection convolutional neural network (CS-CNN) is proposed to predict NOx emission from coal-fired boilers under steady-state and transient load conditions. First, a new channel-selection convolutional layer (CS-CL) is presented to replace regular convolutional layer (RCL). The CS-CL evaluates the channel importance of the input variables, selects the Top-C important channels and releases the hyperparameters of the remaining low-importance channels, thus contributing to maximize the utilization of the parameter resources of the model. The advantages of using CS-CLs are the preservation of the great majority of manipulated variables involved in combustion control among the input variables and the prevention of the model overfitting problem due to the redundancy of input variables. Second, a sliding window-based preprocessing method is applied to the historical data of the boiler which is divided into four-dimensional (4D) tensors. Then, comparative tests are performed on long short-term memory (LSTM) model, baseline CNN and CS-CNN using the historical data of a 670 MW boiler. The results of tests showed that CS-CNN has higher prediction performance. Finally, in order to increase the interpretability of the deep learning black box model, this study analyzes the working mechanism of the CS-CNN through ablation analysis and visualization of model parameters. • Channel importance assessment of input variables by channel selection convolutional layer. • Data-driven model for complete burner manipulation variables. • Novel convolutional neural network for predicting NOx emission from coal-fired boilers. • Model visualization analysis of convolutional neural network for industrial time series data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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