Optimal control of rare earth countercurrent extraction process based on soft-sensor

Since the online measurement of the multi-component content can hardly be achieved in rare earth extraction production process. The soft-sensor technology was proposed to estimate the component content of rare earth elements in spot detection on line and develops optimal control of the product purity at two outlet of the countercurrent extraction separation process. Then the proposed method was applied to a production process to achieve automatic control for whole production process through using HAB to separate the extract Yttrium in a company,which can attain more than 99.5% purity in Y_2O_3 in first stage and raise 2% recovery in Y.