Patents by Inventor Junfei Qiao

Junfei Qiao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240419872
    Abstract: The invention provides a soft measurement method for dioxin emission of grate furnace MSWI process based on simplified deep forest regression of residual fitting mechanism. The highly toxic pollutant dioxin (DXN) generated in the solid waste incineration process is a key environmental index which must be subjected to control. The rapid and accurate soft measurement of the DXN emission concentration is an urgent affair for reducing the emission control of the pollutants. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out feature selection on a high-dimensional process variable by adopting mutual information and significance test; then, constructing a simplified deep forest regression (SDFR) algorithm to learn a nonlinear relationship between the selected process variable and the DXN emission concentration; and finally, designing a gradient enhancement strategy based on a residual error fitting (REF) mechanism to improve the generalization performance of a layer-by-layer learning process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jian TANG, Heng XIA, CanLin CUI, Junfei QIAO
  • Patent number: 12112104
    Abstract: A simulation analysis system for dioxin concentration in furnace of municipal solid waste incineration process includes an area division module, the area division module is connected with a numerical simulation module, the numerical simulation module is connected with a single-factor analysis module, the single-factor analysis module includes an orthogonal test analysis module, and the orthogonal test analysis module is connected with a control module; the area division module is used for dividing areas in the incinerator, the numerical simulation module is used for conducting modeling simulation on the divided areas, the single-factor analysis module is used for conducting single-factor analysis according to the output of the numerical simulation module, and the orthogonal test analysis module is used for conducting orthogonal test analysis according to the output of the numerical simulation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jian Tang, JiaKun Chen, Heng Xia, Junfei Qiao
  • Patent number: 12105075
    Abstract: A total nitrogen intelligent detection system based on multi-objective optimized fuzzy neural network belongs to both the field of environment engineer and control engineer. The total nitrogen in wastewater treatment process is an important index to measure the quality of effluent. However, it is extremely difficult to detect the total nitrogen concentration due to the long detection time and the low prediction accuracy in the wastewater treatment process. To solve the problem, multi-objective optimized fuzzy neural network with global optimization capability may be established to optimize the structure and parameters to solve the problem of the poor generalization ability of fuzzy neural network. The experimental results show that total nitrogen intelligent detection system can automatically collect the variables information of wastewater treatment process and predict total nitrogen concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Chenxuan Sun, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20240310350
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for predicting effluent ammonia nitrogen (NH4—N) and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining data to be tested; and inputting the data to be tested into a trained deep echo state network, to obtain predicted NH4—N concentration. A method for establishing the deep echo state network includes: establishing an original network, where the original network includes a plurality of input variables and reservoirs, and a principal component analysis (PCA) mapping layer is added between adjacent ones of the reservoirs; initializing the original network to obtain an initialized network; performing parameter optimization on the initialized network by a matrix generation method of singular value decomposition and a competitive swarm optimizer (CSO) algorithm, to obtain an optimized network; and training and testing the optimized network, to obtain the trained deep echo state network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Cuili Yang, Sheng Yang, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20240302341
    Abstract: A broad hybrid forest regression (BHFR)-based soft sensor method for DXN emission in a municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) process, including: based on a broad learning system (BLS) framework, constructing a BHFR soft sensor model for small sample high-dimensional data by replacing a neuron with a non-differential base learner, where the BHFR soft sensor model includes a feature mapping layer, a latent feature extraction layer, a feature incremental layer and an incremental learning layer, and the method includes: mapping a high-dimensional feature; extracting a latent feature from a feature space of a fully connected hybrid matrix, and reducing model complexity and computation consumption based on an information measurement criterion; enhancing a feature representation capacity by training the feature incremental layer based on an extracted latent feature; and constructing the incremental learning layer based on an incremental learning strategy, obtaining a weight matrix with a Moore-Penrose pseudo-inv
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Jian TANG, Heng XIA, Canlin CUI, Junfei QIAO
  • Patent number: 12056426
    Abstract: A hardware-in-loop simulation experiment platform of multiple input and multiple output loop control for MSWI process includes a real equipment layer and a virtual object layer, where in the real equipment layer and the virtual object layer realize communication through hard wirings and data acquisition cards, the real equipment layer and virtual object layer realize communication in OPC mode through Ethernet; the real equipment layer comprises monitoring equipment and control equipment, and the virtual object layer comprises an MSWI actuator model, an MSWI instrument device model and an MSWI process object model which are respectively operated in different industrial personal computers. The hardware-in-loop simulation experiment platform of multiple input and multiple output loop control for MSWI process provided by the invention is used for providing a reliable engineering verification environment for MSWI process control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jian Tang, TianZheng Wang, Heng Xia, Junfei Qiao
  • Patent number: 12002014
    Abstract: Disclosed is a soft measurement method of DXN emission concentration based on multi-source latent feature selective ensemble (SEN) modeling. First, MSWI process data is divided into subsystems of different sources according to industrial processes, and principal component analysis (PCA) is used to separately extract the subsystems' latent features and conduct multi-source latent feature primary selection according to the threshold value of the principal component contribution rate preset by experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jian Tang, Junfei Qiao, Zihao Guo, Haijun He
  • Patent number: 11976817
    Abstract: A method for detecting a dioxin emission concentration of a municipal solid waste incineration process based on multi-level feature selection. A grate furnace-based MSWI process is divided into a plurality of sub-processes. A correlation coefficient value, a mutual information value and a comprehensive evaluation value between each of original input features of the sub-processes and the DXN emission concentration are obtained, thereby obtaining first-level features. The first-level features are selected and statistically processed by adopting a GAPLS-based feature selection algorithm and according to redundancy between different features, thereby obtaining second-level features. Third-level features are obtained according to the first-level features and statistical results of the second-level features. A PLS algorithm-based DXN detection model is established based on model prediction performance and the third-level features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing University of Technology
    Inventors: Junfei Qiao, Zihao Guo, Jian Tang
  • Publication number: 20240143872
    Abstract: A simulation analysis system for dioxin concentration in furnace of municipal solid waste incineration process includes an area division module, the area division module is connected with a numerical simulation module, the numerical simulation module is connected with a single-factor analysis module, the single-factor analysis module includes an orthogonal test analysis module, and the orthogonal test analysis module is connected with a control module; the area division module is used for dividing areas in the incinerator, the numerical simulation module is used for conducting modeling simulation on the divided areas, the single-factor analysis module is used for conducting single-factor analysis according to the output of the numerical simulation module, and the orthogonal test analysis module is used for conducting orthogonal test analysis according to the output of the numerical simulation module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jian TANG, JiaKun Chen, Heng XIA, Junfei QIAO
  • Publication number: 20240078410
    Abstract: A dynamic modular neural network (DMNN) for NOx emission prediction in MSWI process is provided. First, the input variables are smoothed and normalized. Then, a feature extraction method based on principal component analysis (PCA) was designed to realize the dynamic division of complex conditions, and the prediction task to be processed was decomposed into sub-tasks under different conditions. In addition, aiming each sub-tasks, a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based sub-network is constructed to achieve accurate prediction of NOx emissions under various working conditions. Finally, a cooperative strategy is used to integrate the output of the sub-networks, further improving the accuracy of prediction model. Finally, merits of the proposed DMNN are confirmed on a benchmark and real industrial data of a municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) process. The problem that the NOx emission of MSWI process is difficult to be accurately predicted due to the sensor limitation is effectively solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Junfei Qiao, Haoshan Duan, Xi Meng, Jian Tang
  • Publication number: 20230297736
    Abstract: A hardware-in-loop simulation experiment platform of multiple input and multiple output loop control for MSWI process includes a real equipment layer and a virtual object layer, where in the real equipment layer and the virtual object layer realize communication through hard wirings and data acquisition cards, the real equipment layer and virtual object layer realize communication in OPC mode through Ethernet; the real equipment layer comprises monitoring equipment and control equipment, and the virtual object layer comprises an MSWI actuator model, an MSWI instrument device model and an MSWI process object model which are respectively operated in different industrial personal computers. The hardware-in-loop simulation experiment platform of multiple input and multiple output loop control for MSWI process provided by the invention is used for providing a reliable engineering verification environment for MSWI process control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jian TANG, TianZheng WANG, Heng XIA, Junfei QIAO
  • Publication number: 20230259075
    Abstract: A dynamic multi-objective particle swarm optimization based optimal control method is provided to realize the control of dissolved oxygen (SO) and the nitrate nitrogen (SNO) in wastewater treatment process. In this method, dynamic multi-objective particle swarm optimization was used to optimize the operation objectives of WWTP, and the optimal solutions of SO and SNO can be calculated. Then PID controller was introduced to trace the dynamic optimal solutions of SO and SNO. The results demonstrated that the proposed optimal control strategy can address the dynamic optimal control problem, and guarantee the efficient and stable operation. In addition, this proposed optimal control method in this present invention can guarantee the effluent qualities and reduce the energy consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Honggui HAN, Lu ZHANG, Junfei QIAO
  • Publication number: 20230004780
    Abstract: A multi-time scale model predictive control method for wastewater treatment process is designed to control the dissolved oxygen concentration and nitrate nitrogen concentration in different time scales to ensure that the effluent quality meets the standard. In view of the difference of time scales in wastewater treatment process caused by different sampling periods of dissolved oxygen concentration and nitrate nitrogen concentration, prediction models with different time scales are firstly designed to unify the prediction outputs to the fast time scale. Then, the gradient descent algorithm is used to solve the optimal solution with fast time scale to control the wastewater treatment system. It not only conforms to the operation characteristics of wastewater treatment process, but also solves the problem of poor operation performance of multiobjective model predictive control caused by different time scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Shijia Fu, Haoyuan Sun, Junfei Qiao
  • Patent number: 11530139
    Abstract: A cooperative fuzzy-neural control method is designed in this present invention. Due to the difficulty for cooperatively controlling the concentrations of the dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen in wastewater treatment process, a cooperative fuzzy-neural control method is investigated. In this proposed method, firstly, a interval type-2 fuzzy neural network is employed to construct the cooperative fuzzy-neural controller. Secondly, a parameter cooperative strategy is proposed to cooperatively optimize the global and local parameters of the cooperative fuzzy-neural controller to meet the control requirements. This proposed cooperative fuzzy-neural control method can cooperatively control the concentrations of the dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen in wastewater treatment process. The results illustrate that the proposed cooperative fuzzy-neural control method can achieve the high control accuracy and guarantee the normal operations of wastewater treatment process under the different operation conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Jiaming Li, Xiaolong Wu, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20220383062
    Abstract: An optimal control method for wastewater treatment process (WWTP) based on a self-adjusting multi-task particle swarm optimization (SA-MTPSO) algorithm belongs to the field of WWTP. To balance the relationship between the effluent water quality (EQ) and energy consumption (EC) and achieve optimization online quickly, the invention establishes a data-based multi-task optimization model for WWTP to describe the relationship between the control variables and EQ, EC. Then, the SA-MTPSO algorithm is adopted to solve the optimal set-points of the nitrate nitrogen and dissolved oxygen concentration for WWTP. The PID controller is used to track the optimal set-points, so as to reduce EC while ensuring EQ, and realize the online optimal control of WWTP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Xing Bai, Ying Hou, Hongyan Yang, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20220267169
    Abstract: An intelligent detection system of effluent total nitrogen (TN) based on fuzzy transfer learning algorithm belongs to the field of intelligent detection technology. To detect the TN concentration, the artificial neural network can be used to model wastewater treatment process due to the nonlinear approximation ability and learning ability. However, wastewater treatment process has the characteristic of time-varying dynamics and external disturbance, artificial neural network prediction method cannot acquire sufficient data to ensure the accuracy of TN prediction, and data loss and data deficiency will make the prediction model invalid. The invention proposed an intelligent detection system of effluent total nitrogen based on fuzzy transfer learning algorithm; the proposed system contains several functional modules, including detection instrument, data acquisition, data storage and TN prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Hongxu Liu, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20220194830
    Abstract: In a cooperative optimal control system, firstly, two-level models are established to capture the dynamic features of different time-scale performance indices. Secondly, a data-driven assisted model based cooperative optimization algorithm is developed to optimize the two-level models, so that the optimal set-points of dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen can be acquired. Thirdly, a predictive control strategy is designed to trace the obtained optimal set-points of dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen. This proposed cooperative optimal control system can effectively deal with the difficulties of formulating the dynamic features and acquiring the optimal set-points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Lu Zhang, Junfei Qiao
  • Patent number: 11346831
    Abstract: Under conventional techniques, wastewater treatment has many problems such as poor production conditions, serious random interference, strong nonlinear behavior, large time-varying, and serious lagging. These problems cause difficulty in detecting wastewater treatment parameters such as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) values that are used to monitor water quality. To solve problems associated with monitoring BOD values in real-time, the present disclosure utilizes a self-organizing recurrent RBF neural network designed for intelligent detecting of BOD values. Implementations of the present disclosure build a computing model of BOD values based on the self-organizing recurrent RBF neural network to achieve real-time and more accurate detection of the BOD values (e.g., a BOD concentration). The implementations herein quickly and accurately obtain BOD concentrations and improve the quality and efficiency of wastewater treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Honggui Han, Yanan Guo, Junfei Qiao
  • Publication number: 20220112108
    Abstract: A hierarchical model predictive control (HMPC) method based on fuzzy neural network for wastewater treatment process (WWTP) is designed to realize hierarchical control of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and nitrate nitrogen concentration. In view of the difference of time scales in WWTP, it is difficult to accurately control the concentration of DO and nitrate nitrogen. The disclosure establishes a HMPC structure according to different time scales. Then, the concentration of DO and nitrate nitrogen is controlled with different frequencies. It not only conforms to the operation characteristics of WWTP, but also solves the problem of poor operation performance of multivariable model predictive control. The experimental results show that the HMPC method can achieve accurate on-line control of DO concentration and nitrate nitrogen concentration with different time scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Honggui HAN, Shijia FU, Xiaolong WU, Junfei QIAO
  • Publication number: 20220092482
    Abstract: A method for predicting dioxin (DXN) emission concentration based on hybrid integration of random forest (RF) and gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT). A random sampling of a training sample and an input feature is performed on a modeling data with a small sample size and a high-dimensional characteristic to generate a training subset. J RF-based DXN sub-models based on the training subset are established. J×I GBDT-based DXN sub-models are established by performing I iterations on each of the RF-based DXN sub-models. Predicted outputs of the RF-based DXN sub-model and the GBDT-based DXN sub-model are combined by a simple average weighting method to obtain a final output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jian TANG, Heng XIA, Junfei QIAO, Zihao GUO