Fuel Costs Minimization on a Steel Billet Reheating Furnace Using Genetic Algorithms

Table 1

Parameters found for 1st-order model for BDG and oil in each control zone.

Parameters	BDG homog. zone	BDG heating zone	Oil homog. zone	Oil heating zone
(min)	3.1	3.2	3.0	3.1
(°Cflow unit)	0.005	0.021	0.018	0.22
(min)	3.9	3.8	2.3	2.1