US 12,346,819 B1
Method, device, and medium for predicting flue dust concentration
Huan Li, Changsha (CN); Hong Xue, Yiyang (CN); Liang Chen, Changsha (CN); Rongyuan Chen, Changsha (CN); Changqing Su, Changsha (CN); Shengbo Gu, Beijing (CN); Yang Chen, Xiangxiang (CN); Jiayin Guo, Hangzhou (CN); Linfeng Jin, Changsha (CN); and Jingling Yang, Changsha (CN)
Assigned to Hunan University Of Technology and Business, Changsha (CN)
Filed by Hunan University Of Technology and Business, Changsha (CN)
Filed on Jun. 4, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/732,648.
Claims priority of application No. 202410429537.3 (CN), filed on Apr. 10, 2024.
Int. Cl. G06N 3/084 (2023.01); G06N 3/048 (2023.01)
CPC G06N 3/084 (2013.01) [G06N 3/048 (2023.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for predicting a flue dust concentration, comprising:
cleaning raw data, wherein the raw data comprises coal quality data and quantity data of each batch of coal fed into a furnace, as well as hourly flue dust emission amount monitored by a continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS);
calculating a flue dust emission amount of each batch of the coal fed into the furnace based on hourly coal consumption of a unit, and normalizing the coal quality data, the quantity data, and the flue dust emission amount of each batch of the coal fed into the furnace to obtain a data set;
constructing a prediction model, training the prediction model by using the data set to obtain a trained prediction model, and predicting the flue dust concentration by the trained prediction model; and
comparing the hourly flue dust emission amount with the flue dust concentration predicted by the trained prediction model to determine whether the CEMS is abnormal; and in response to the CEMS being determined to be abnormal, inspecting and repairing, by maintenance personnel, the CEMS;
wherein the prediction model is a backpropagation neural network (BPNN), the BPNN comprises an input layer, at least one hidden layer, and an output layer, a weight initialization mode of the BPNN is Glorot uniform distribution initialization, a threshold is initialized to 0, and a rectified linear unit (ReLu) function is selected as an activation function for the BPNN;
wherein the training the prediction model by using the data set specifically comprises:
dividing the data set into a training data set and a test data set according to a set ratio;
inputting the training data set into the BPNN, and calculating inputs and outputs of the at least one hidden layer and the output layer through forward propagation;
calculating an error of a predicted result of the output layer by using a mean square error (MSE) formula, wherein the MSE formula is expressed as:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
where mse represents a mean square error, y represents a real value, ŷ represents a predicted value, and n represents a total sample number;
performing backward propagation on the error, optimizing model parameters based on an adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimizer through formulas below, adjusting a connection weight and a threshold between the at least one hidden layer and the output layer:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
where mt-1 and vt-1 represent first-order moment estimates before iteration, mt and vt represent first-order moment estimates after the iteration, β1 and β2 represent exponential weighted average parameters, dk represents a gradient of a weight w and a threshold b, a represents a learning rate, E represents a constant to prevent a denominator from being 0, wt-1 and bt-1 represent a weight to be trained and a threshold to be trained respectively, wt and bt represent a trained weight and a trained threshold respectively;
repeating the steps from the forward propagation to the backward propagation until a preset number of training iterations is reached; and
evaluating a trained BPNN as the trained prediction model by using the test data set;
wherein the evaluating a trained BPNN by using the test data set specifically comprises:
after training the prediction model, inputting the test data set, obtaining a predicted value by forward propagation calculation, and evaluating a predicted result by a MSE, a root mean squared error (RMSE), a mean absolute error (MAE) and a determination coefficient R2, with calculation formulas as follows:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
where SSR represents a regression sum of squares, and SST represents a total sum of squares.