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ArticleScientific reports2026

A synergistic deep learning framework integrating GWO-VMD and dual-channel TCN-GRU for cobalt ion concentration prediction in zinc hydrometallurgical purification.

Xidi Shang, Wuliang Yin, Jianxin Pan, Min Wang, Hua Wang, Kai Yang, Qingtai Xiao

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Xidi ShangState Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, Yunnan, PR China.
Wuliang YinDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Jianxin PanGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal - Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai, 519087, Guangdong, PR China.
Min WangDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, College of AI, Cyber and Computing, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249-0634, USA.
Hua WangState Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, Yunnan, PR China.
Kai YangState Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, Yunnan, PR China. kaiyang@kust.edu.cn.
Qingtai XiaoState Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, Yunnan, PR China. qingtai.xiao@kust.edu.cn.

Funding

Central Guidance Local Scientific and Technological Development Funds 202407AB110022Open Fund of State Key Laboratory YSQH-ZD-24005Scientific and Technological Talent and Platform Project of Yunnan Province, China 202405AF140068Talent Program XDYC-QNRC-2022-0129Yunnan Fundamental Research Project 202601AT070196Yunnan Fundamental Research Project, China 202501CI070345
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Abstract

Accurate prediction of cobalt ion concentration is important for maintaining electrolyte purity and process stability in zinc hydrometallurgical purification. However, conventional laboratory analysis is time-consuming and difficult to support timely process adjustment. This work proposes a GWO-VMD-TCN-GRU framework for one-step-ahead prediction of cobalt ion concentration in the second-stage purification process. GWO is used to optimize VMD parameters and decompose the non-stationary concentration series into trend and detail components, while the TCN-GRU network captures local fluctuations and temporal dependencies. Experiments were conducted using 720 hourly samples collected over 30 consecutive days. The final selected model, evaluated on the fixed chronological test set, achieved RMSE, MAE, R², and KGE values of 0.1349, 0.1095, 0.9922, and 0.9710, respectively. Compared with representative statistical, machine learning, and deep learning baseline models evaluated under the same fixed chronological testing protocol, the proposed GWO-VMD-TCN-GRU model reduced RMSE by 75.3% to 94.5% and MAE by 73.1% to 94.3%. Five-fold time-series validation was further conducted to evaluate temporal generalization across chronological folds, with average R

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Cobalt ion concentrationHybrid deep learningSoftware platformVariational mode decompositionZinc hydrometallurgy

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PMID42744931
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