As core thermal energy equipment in steel, power, and petrochemical industries, industrial heating furnaces' combustion control directly impacts energy efficiency, costs, and pollutant emissions-critical for industrial decarbonization. However, combustion processes' high nonlinearity, time-variability, multi-disturbance, and multi-objective constraints make traditional manual/single strategies ineffective for complex fluctuations and optimization, failing high-efficiency, low-carbon demands. Recent intelligent control technologies, integrating data-driven and mechanism-based models, have advanced temperature field modeling, parameter prediction, multi-objective optimization, and advanced control, boosting accuracy, stability, and emission reduction. This paper reviews intelligent combustion control model progress, compares model applicability, addresses key limitations (e.g., poor generalization, weak real-time integration), and proposes future directions (cross-model integration, data-scarce modeling, online optimization), providing theoretical and technical references for heating furnaces' energy-efficient, lowcarbon, and intelligent upgrading.
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