A new prediction method for sodium aluminate solution evaporation integrating process knowledge and data-driven spatial-temporal adaptive model

In alumina production, the evaporation as the key process uses recyclable resources and reduces environmental pollution. In fact, the quality of export product with offline and delayed, results in low precision of process control and high energy consumption. To ensure green and efficient production, in this paper, a new prediction method integrating process knowledge and data-driven spatial-temporal adaptive model is put forward. First, to preprocessed production data for ensuring modeling accuracy, data reconciliation technology is adopted. Then, based on material and heat transfer mechanism, for equipment and industrial process, the mechanism models are established. Furthermore, with time difference and moving window model, an error compensation method is utilized in terms of double locally weighted kernel PLS for estimation error in hypothesis-based mechanism modeling. Finally, the data-driven spatial-temporal adaptive model and the process knowledge-based mechanism model are integrated. To illustrate the model feasibility, an industrial sodium aluminate solution evaporation is used. It demonstrates that, for the developed model, the prediction accuracy can reach more than 90% within the ± 2% error range, and effectively estimate the actual product quality and ensure the prediction effect.