The present work aims at performing prediction validation
for the
physical properties of coke layered and nonlayered hybrid pelletized
sinter (HPS) using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Physical property
analyses were experimentally performed on the two HPS products. The
ANN model was then trained to obtain the best prediction results with
the grid-search hyper-parameter tuning method. The learning rate,
momentum constant, and the number of neurons varied over specified
ranges. The binary variable conversion was utilized to assess the
two sintering processes. The nonlayered HPS product of 4 mm micropellets
at basicity 1.75 and using 8% coke shows a good combination of physical
properties, whereas HPS of 4 mm micropellets at 1.5 basicity using
4% coke as fuel and 2% coke as layering gives a radical improvement
in physical properties. The yield of the HPS product is 96.07%, with
the shatter index (SI), tumbler index (TI), and abrasion index (AI)
values being 86.12, 79.60, and 5.74%, respectively. Hence, HPS can
be preferred by implementing the layering of coke powder. The prediction
analyses showed that the multilayer perceptron model (MLP) network
with a 4-29-5 structure showed prediction accuracies of over 99.99%
and a mean squared error (MSE) of 2.87 × 10–4. It verifies the accuracy and prediction effectiveness of the hyper-parameter-tuned
ANN model.