Iranian Firm Designs AI-Based Software for Direct Reduction Units in Steel Industries
The AIronPAX software is based on artificial intelligence and was designed by the company's artificial intelligence unit to simulate the direct reduction unit in the steel industry. It has now reached the implementation phase in a steel industrial complex to help increase the quality of steel products with the nanocatalysts used in the complex.
The software consists of three main parts; the prediction part predicts the quality of sponge iron based on input parameters; the parameter suggestion section, which suggests adjustable parameters to achieve the highest quality and production rate in different conditions, and finally the thermodynamic section, which calculates and announces some of the most important process parameters to adjust and maintain the system balance.
“We designed a domestically-developed artificial intelligence software for the sponge iron production line of a steel industrial complex, and this project has been produced, loaded and operated by our company for the first time,” said Hajar Qanbari, a faculty member of the University of Science and Technology and consultant to the company's Artificial Intelligence Unit.
She described early prevention of sponge iron quality loss, the possibility of taking further control measures on product quality, production line management in case of disruptions in process input parameters like power outages and optimizing system calibration, and the early detection of system bugs as the most important achievements of the project.
In a relevant development in July, an Iranian researcher and professor of the Faculty of Mining Engineering of the University of Tehran had also succeeded in producing iron concentrate from low-grade hematite sources with application in steel industry.
Mehdi Qarabaqi was able to reduce water consumption in the processing and increase the efficiency and recovery of the process in the low-grade hematite iron project by using modern processing methods and the appropriate combination of low-cost and low-water-consuming methods and by making changes in the layout of equipment and the design of separation equipment.
“In hematite iron processing methods, physical, gravity and magnetic methods and some new methods have been used, and this has led to the production of hematite concentrate product with suitable grade and high efficiency,” Qarabaqi told ANA.
Noting that the project was implemented for a private company and at present, he said that a contract is being signed for the construction of an industrial plant for the production of hematite concentrate.
“The main ingredient for steel production in Iran is the magnetite iron ore concentrates,” Qarabaqi said.
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