Abstract
Presented in this work research concerns pyrometallurgical method of lead refining process. The main objective of the considered lead refining process is to remove impurities of the input lead ore in order to obtain output material of PB985 type. The content of lead in the output material should be at least 99,985%. The considered pyrometallurgical lead refining process consists of 11 subprocesses, which are performed sequentially. The output material of each of the first 10 subprocesses is the input material for the consecutive subprocess. Each of subprocesses is controlled autonomously, however it can influence the control of following subprocesses due to obtained results. The main goal of the work is to design a computer system, which controls the whole lead refining pyrometallurgical process. The essential idea of the control system is to elaborate control advices at every step of the refining process. The proposed computer system should consist of subsystems giving advices according to individual subprocesses, so every subprocess should be controlled by individual control subsystem. Case-Base Reasoning is chosen as the methodology for creation of each control subsystem.