“…Therefore, data-driven modeling and predictive control with high requirements for data volume and computing power are increasingly applied to the improvement of control systems in coal-fired power plants. The data-driven methods have been widely applied in combustion prediction and optimization (Li et al, 2014;Li and Niu, 2016;Cheng et al, 2018), NOx emission prediction and reduction (Smrekar et al, 2013;Song et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2016;Tan et al, 2019;Xie et al, 2020;Kang et al, 2021), wall temperature prediction (Dhanuskodi et al, 2015;Xie et al, 2020), estimation of exhaust steam properties (Guo et al, 2016;Laubscher, 2019), boiler-turbine coordinated control (Wu et al, 2013;Wu et al, 2014a;Wu et al, 2014b), and so on. However, the application of machine learning on steam temperature prediction is rare.…”