Deep reinforcement learning in smart manufacturing: A review and prospects

C Li, P Zheng, Y Yin, B Wang, L Wang - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
To facilitate the personalized smart manufacturing paradigm with cognitive automation
capabilities, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has attracted ever-increasing attention by …

A systematic literature review on machine learning applications at coal-fired thermal power plants for improved energy efficiency

C Bisset, PVZ Venter, R Coetzer - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Power generation comprises high environmental and ecological impacts. The global power
industry is under pressure to develop more efficient ways to operate and reduce the impacts …

A survey and comparative evaluation of actor‐critic methods in process control

D Dutta, SR Upreti - The Canadian Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Actor‐critic (AC) methods have emerged as an important class of reinforcement learning
(RL) paradigm that enables model‐free control by acting on a process and learning from the …

Artificial intelligence-implemented prediction and cost-effective optimization of micropollutant photodegradation using g-C3N4/Bi2O3 heterojunction

Y ** systems in wastewater treatment plants
G Seo, S Yoon, M Kim, C Mun, E Hwang - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based predictive control
scheme for reducing the energy consumption and energy cost of pum** systems in …

ECoalVis: visual analysis of control strategies in coal-fired power plants

S Liu, D Weng, Y Tian, Z Deng, H Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improving the efficiency of coal-fired power plants has numerous benefits. The control
strategy is one of the major factors affecting such efficiency. However, due to the complex …

Optimizing control of waste incineration plants using reinforcement learning and digital twins

M Schlappa, J Hegemann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More than 60 waste incineration plants (WIPs) are active across Germany. WIPs have
various levels of automation, but they still rely on manual operations by human operators …

Modeling and optimization of NO emission for a steam power plant by data‐driven methods

P Movahed, AA Rezazadeh, A Avami… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the power industry toward large‐scale automation and self‐monitoring
provides the opportunity to optimize the technical and environmental performance of the …

Synergistic multifactor influence and management of commercial vanadium-based catalyst lifetimes

Y Xu, X Liu, R Guo, T Wu, H Ding, D Ye, W Pan - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
NO x does great harm to the environment and human beings. The selective catalytic
reduction (SCR) of NO x with NH 3 is proven to be a mature technology to eliminate NO x …