Effective Throughput Optimization of SAG Milling Process Based on BPNN and Genetic Algorithm

Grinding is an energy-consuming process in mineral processing industry. Improving grinding processing capacity per unit power consumption is an effective means to reduce grinding production cost. In this paper, a new index for evaluating the effective processing throughput of SAG milling is proposed. The production process model is established by BP neural network (BPNN). Through combining the process mechanism and production constraints, the genetic algorithm is adopted to optimize the operating parameters of the SAG milling process to maximize the effective throughput, thus improving the grinding efficiency. The experimental results showed that through optimization of effective throughput function proposed in this paper, the SAG mill processing capacity has been increased by 4% and the operating power drawn reduced by 1.12%. It has important guiding significance for the actual production process.