TASKS OF AUTOMATED CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN A COPPER SMELTER

This article examines the copper smelting complex as a control object, and provides a technological diagram of the relationship between the tasks of managing the complex. Substantial formulations of control problems for individual stages of the metallurgical complex have been formulated. As an example of a specific control problem, the mathematical formulation of the problem of optimal charge preparation and the method for solving it are considered. In recent years, the development of copper metallurgy is characterized by an increase in the use of raw materials, the use of oxygen, and automated controlled processes for charging and smelting copper concentrates. The creation of automated process control systems is one of the important areas of development of non-ferrous metallurgy. Non-ferrous metallurgy is one of the major sectors of the national economy. Management in general and management of metallurgical production in particular is an informational process in nature that ensures the implementation of the material process, subject to the achievement of the pre-formulated goal of the functioning of the production management system.