Scientific-Production Center “Yugtsvetmetavtomatika”, Vladikavkaz, Russia:

S. V. Soshkin, Director, e-mail: soshkin@scma.ru
G. S. Soshkin, Deputy Head of Department of Scientific-Technical Development and Introduction

JSC “Soyuztsvetmetavtomatika”, Moscow, Russia:
V. P. Topchaev, Chief Executive Officer

North-Caucasian Mining-Metallurgical Institute, Vladikavkaz, Russia:
A. L. Rutkovskiy, Professor of a Chair of Theory and Automation of Metallurgical Processes and Furnaces

The task of modern management system of anode baking annular furnaces for the aluminum industry is stated. The decision on the application of a pulsed supply of fuel in the heating furnace piers is explained. The technical tools of Russian production, allowing implementing a full-blown automatic process control system by calcined process are presented. The algorithm of control “firing” bridges and exhaust manifold calcinatory is described. The simulation of temperature control in heating piers for options with a proportional-integral-regulator and differentiating neural network predictive controller is conducted and the transient perturbations in the case of the assignment are shown. Calculated values of proportional-integral-differentiating industrial controller are implemented in the local controller, exercising control “fired” bridge. The experimental data and achieved performance mode firing process, obtained on the basis of the above technical means, which meet the requirements of the management systems of open anode baking furnaces, is described. The prospects of the system development in firing conditions optimization direction on the basis of statistical processing of data arrays, structured in accordance with the submitted data are distinguished.

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