Optimising the Composition of Charge in the Metallurgical Industry

The optimal composition of charge is a major problem in the Metallurgical industry. It is necessary to select packages of raw material from a stock, and to assemble the appropriate combination of elements to meet the criteria of a particular alloy. We approached the optimisation problem with a genetic algorithm. As the results show, the genetic algorithm is a suitable procedure for the optimisation problem of selecting the correct combination of packages to assemble the charge.