Abstract:As to the unsatisfactory accuracy and long training time in current predictive methods of energy consumption and other performance criteria for sintering process, firstly, based on summary of existing predictive methods, support vector machine for regression (SVR) was introduced into sintering production system, and two modeling modes were proposed. Then, the general procedures of predictive modeling based on SVR were given. After that, the proposed method was verified in a scenario derived from a large scale iron and steel enterprise, compared with other predictive methods like traditional multiple linear regression, BP neural network, RBF network and extreme learning machine within the same mode and between different modes. The result shows that SVR method can achieve satisfied predictive results rapidly, which have advantages in prediction accuracy and time efficiency over other methods.