“…An intelligent control method based on a hierarchical configuration is researched in Cao et al (2010). To handle the large time delay in sintering process, predictive control methods are now widely used for BTP control (Cheng, 2010; Greenwell and Vahidi, 2010; Kouro et al, 2009; Lu and Tsai, 2007; Nolde and Morari, 2010; Wu and Xu, 2007). There are also some other techniques to be used in modeling sintering process such as BPNN (back propagation neural network), RBF (radial basis function), SVM (support vector machine) and fuzzy network and ELM (extreme learning machine) (Feng et al, 2012; Huang et al, 2006; Li et al, 2016; Meng et al, 2012; Mengjoo et al, 2000; Wang et al, 2014).…”