Simplified First-Principles Modelling of Glass Furnaces for Control Purpose

Abstract Control of glass furnaces has known a great expansion in the last decades, particularly with model-based operation optimisation methods. The challenge is to get models covering the whole operating range and at the same time presenting a low computational load. The most widespread models today are data-based or issued from CFD techniques, and the need for accurate fast models is important. Our model based on first-principles and using the zonal approach shows a good compromise, and we will investigate its applicability to control purposes in further studies.