DRIpax DR Optimizer

The DRIpax Direct Reduction Optimizer is an advanced process optimization system explicitly designed for direct reduction plants. In the steel industry, it is crucial to achieve efficient and standardized process operations while maintaining high-quality direct reduced iron (DRI) production with minimal variation. The DRIpax DR Optimizer addresses these challenges by providing a rule-based expert system (Level 2 automation system) that enhances operational efficiency, stabilizes direct reduced iron (DRI) quality, and reduces operational costs. This system empowers plant operators, process engineers, and production managers to optimize their processes through online prediction, artificial intelligence, best practice controls, and significant savings in downstream operations.

The DRIpax Direct Reduction Optimizer fulfills the critical demands of steel producers by ensuring shift-independent standardized operations with best-practice controls. It eliminates delays in product quality adjustments caused by slow laboratory measurements. By stabilizing DRI quality through online prediction of metallization and carbon content, the system ensures consistent direct reduced iron (DRI) quality, leading to significant savings in downstream plants. The DRIpax process information and data management system offers comprehensive process control, while its product quality prediction models enable early and accurate quality adjustments. The DRIpax Direct Reduction Optimizer provides process diagnoses and corrective actions for standardized, optimized operations, ensuring efficient and standardized process operations and high-quality direct reduced iron (DRI) production with minimal variation.

Benefits of DRIpax Direct Reduction Optimizer

• Achieves shift-independent standardized operations with best practice controls
• Stabilizes DRI quality through online prediction of metallization and carbon content
• Eliminates delays in product quality adjustments due to slow laboratory measurements
• Realizes significant savings in downstream plants due to consistent DRI quality input
• Reduces operational costs and improves downstream efficiency
• Provides a comprehensive process information and data management system
• Offers early and accurate quality adjustments with product quality prediction models
• Supports efficient and standardized process operations with expert system diagnostics
• Improved raw material utilization flexibility