Basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking plays an important role in steelmaking process. Hence, it is necessary to study BOF steelmaking modeling. In this paper, a novel regression algorithm is proposed by using nonparallel support vector regression with weight information (WNPSVR) for the end-point prediction of BOF steelmaking. The weight information is excavated by K-nearest neighbors (KNNs) algorithm. Since the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) has the characteristics of fast convergence speed and a few adjustment parameters, WOA is applied to optimize the parameters in the objective function of WNPSVR. Compared with traditional prediction models, WNPSVR-WOA is not easy to fall into local minimum values and is insensitive to noise. Thus, the prediction and control of molten steel end-point information are more accurate. Experimental results verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed model. Within different error bounds (0.005 wt.% for carbon content model and 10°C for temperature model), the hit rates of carbon content and temperature are 89% and 95%, respectively. Meanwhile, a double hit rate of 85% is achieved. The above results conclude that our WNPSVR-WOA has important reference value for actual BOF application and can improve the steel product quality. Moreover, WNPSVR-WOA can also be used to other fields.
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