Given the typically 40-year asset life spans of steel plants, investment decisions in the 2020s will shape technology composition into the 2050s. - Improve the quality of real-time, process control calculations in blast furnace operations. - Improving the efficiency of the fuel used in terms of coal and coke relative to production output. - Controlling the [[Reducing Agent Rate - RAR]] based on the [[Pulverized Coal Rate - PCR]] and the Coke Rate - CR - - Sensor Data / RAR control point and Temp objective - Monitored parameters to ensure optimal furnace operation: - daily production values, - gas heat load - gas and silicon utilization, - multiple temperature readings, all of which are critical for maintaining the desired chemical reactions and physical conditions within the furnace.