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A large-scale solar-driven direct air capture and utilisation process to produce sustainable aviation fuel Open

Meihong Wang, Yide Han, Olajide Otitoju, Ariane D.N. Kamkeng, Hui Yan , et al. · 2025

Renewable energy-powered direct air capture (DAC) combined with CO2 utilisation offers a sustainable decarbonisation strategy for a circular economy. However, current liquid-based DAC (L-DAC) technology relies on natural gas combustion for…

Perspective on artificial intelligence for carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) in Petrochemical Industry Open

Jin Ma, Yide Han, Meihong Wang, Weimin Zhong, Wenli Du , et al. · 2025

The energy-intensive petrochemical industry contributes 14 % of global industrial emissions. In the face of climate change, there is an urgent need for the petrochemical industry transition to low carbon manufacturing. Deployment of carbon…

A knowledge transfer-based co-evolutionary algorithm for dynamic large-scale crude oil scheduling Open

Wanting Zhang, Wenli Du, Wei Du · 2025

Digital intelligence enhancing scheduling optimization in process industries: overview and perspectives Open

Chuan Wang, Wenli Du, Jianyu Zhu, Zhenxian Liang, Tae Hui Kang · 2025

A production planning benchmark for real-world refinery-petrochemical complexes Open

Wenli Du, Yicheng Zhong, Tae Hui Kang, Minglei Yang, Feng Qian · 2025

To achieve digital intelligence transformation and carbon neutrality, effective production planning is crucial for integrated refinery-petrochemical complexes. Modern refinery planning relies on advanced optimization techniques, whose deve…

An integrated solution to mitigate climate change through direct air capture and diabatic compressed air energy storage Open

Yide Han, Yurong Liu, Xin Peng, Bo-Yu Peng, Yuxing Ding , et al. · 2025

Direct air capture (DAC) is a technology designed to capture CO2 directly from ambient air for carbon removal, while compressed air energy storage (CAES) involves compressing and storing air for later use in energy generation. However, dia…

Construction of a knowledge graph for framework material enabled by large language models and its application Open

Xuefeng Bai, Song He, Yi Li, Ya-Bo Xie, Xin Zhang , et al. · 2025

Framework materials (FMs) have been extensively investigated with a plethora of literature documenting their unique properties and potential applications. Despite this, a comprehensive knowledge graph for this emerging field has not yet be…

Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Mixed-Integer Control through Lifted Control Policy Open

Xutao Ma, Chao Ning, Wenli Du, Yang Shi · 2025

This paper investigates the finite-horizon distributionally robust mixed-integer control (DRMIC) of uncertain linear systems. However, deriving an optimal causal feedback control policy to this DRMIC problem is computationally formidable f…

Adversarial Semantic Augmentation for Training Generative Adversarial Networks under Limited Data Open

Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang, Ziqiu Chi, Dongdong Li, Wenli Du · 2025

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made remarkable achievements in synthesizing images in recent years. Typically, training GANs requires massive data, and the performance of GANs deteriorates significantly when training data is l…

Towards fairness-aware multi-objective optimization Open

Guo Yu, Lianbo Ma, Xilu Wang, Wei Du, Wenli Du , et al. · 2024

Recent years have seen the rapid development of fairness-aware machine learning in mitigating unfairness or discrimination in decision-making in a wide range of applications. However, much less attention has been paid to the fairness-aware…

Experimental analysis of bionic rotary tillage broken stubble with universal blade Open

Zenghui Wang, Mingyue Wang, Fangfang Li, Wenli Du, Shulei Gong · 2024

Effects of simplicial centrality on robustness of higher-order multiplex world trade networks Open

Zhuo-Ming Ren, Wan Wang, Tongfeng Weng, Wenli Du · 2024

World trade networks are exhaustively described by pairwise interactions, and overlook higher-order structure from the outcome of collective interactions at the level of groups of nodes like multilateral trade agreements. To address this l…

Differentiable Distributionally Robust Optimization Layers Open

Xutao Ma, Chao Ning, Wenli Du · 2024

In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in decision-focused learning, which embeds optimization problems as a layer in learning pipelines and demonstrates a superior performance than the prediction-focused approach. How…

Semantic mask-based two-step approach: a general framework for X-ray diffraction peak search in high-throughput molecular sieve synthetic system Open

Zhangpeng Wei, Peng Xin, Wenli Du, Qian Feng, Zhiqing Yuan · 2024

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is used for characterizing the crystal structure of molecular sieves after synthetic experiments. However, for a high-throughput molecular sieve synthetic system, the huge amount of data derived from large throughpu…

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Nanning Zheng, Vice Presidents, Jie Chen, Jun-Long Chen, Qionghai Dai , et al. · 2024

Enhancing generalized spectral clustering with embedding Laplacian graph regularization Open

Hengmin Zhang, Jian Yang, Bob Zhang, Yang Tang, Wenli Du , et al. · 2024

An enhanced generalised spectral clustering framework that addresses the limitations of existing methods by incorporating the Laplacian graph and group effect into a regularisation term is presented. By doing so, the framework significantl…

Knowledge-Assisted Dual-Stage Evolutionary Optimization of Large-Scale Crude Oil Scheduling Open

Wanting Zhang, Wei Du, Guo Yu, Renchu He, Wenli Du , et al. · 2024

With the scaling up of crude oil scheduling in modern refineries, large-scale crude oil scheduling problems (LSCOSPs) emerge with thousands of binary variables and non-linear constraints, which are challenging to be optimized by traditiona…

Numerical Investigation of Reactive Cracking Flow in a Cracking Coil With 180° U-Bend Coil Open

Weijun Li, Bai Dehong, Minmin Zhou, Yuan Zong, Xu Zhimei , et al. · 2024

Data-Driven Source Term Estimation of Hazardous Gas Leakages Under Variable Meteorological Conditions Open

Chuantao Ni, Zi–Qiang Lang, Bing Wang, Ang Li, Chenxi Cao , et al. · 2024

Marangoni-Driven Regional Salt Crystallization for High Salinity Desalination Open

Jinbu Su, Xuli Lin, Junhe Ma, Chenyi Shi, Yunong Xie , et al. · 2024

An Interpretable Data-Driven Approach for Process Flowsheet Convergence Troubleshooting Open

Shifeng Qu, Wangxin Jie, Wenli Du, Feng Qian · 2024

Reinforcement Learning Based Gasoline Blending Optimization: Achieving More Efficient Nonlinear Online Blending of Fuels Open

Muyi Huang, Renchu He, Xin Dai, Xin Peng, Wenli Du , et al. · 2023

The online optimization of gasoline blending benefits refinery economies. However, the nonlinear blending mechanism, the oil property fluctuations, and the blending model mismatch bring difficulties to the optimization. To solve the above …

Large-Scale Material and Energy Coupling Systems Optimization for Industrial Refinery with Sustainable Energy Penetration Under Multiple Uncertainties Using Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Open

Tiantian Xu, Jian Long, Liang Zhao, Wenli Du · 2023

Capturing the Difference between Former and Current Employees' Emotional Attitudes based on the Online Reviews Open

Xiao Pan, Wenli Du, Zhuo-Ming Ren · 2023

We take current and former employees as research objects, and analyze the textual and numerical data according to 41,000 anonymous reviews of employees from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google employees, which is collected from a workplac…

Numerical Investigation of Reactive Cracking Flow in a Cracking Coil with 180° U-Bend Coil Open

Weijun Li, Bai Dehong, Minmin Zhou, Yuan Zong, Xu Zhimei , et al. · 2023

Numerical Investigation of Reactive Cracking Flow in a Cracking Coil with 180° U-Bend Coil Open

Weijun Li, Bai Dehong, Minmin Zhou, Yuan Zong, Xu Zhimei , et al. · 2023

Chemical Engineering Solution for Carbon Neutrality in Cement Industry: Tailor a Pathway from Inevitable Co2 Emission into Syngas Open

Bin Shao, Yuanming Zhu, Jun Hu, Yuan Zong, Zhicheng Xie , et al. · 2023

Heat Integration, Simultaneous Structure and Parameter Optimisation, and Techno-Economic Evaluation of Waste Heat Recovery Systems for Petrochemical Industry Open

Yuxing Ding, Yurong Liu, Meihong Wang, Wenli Du, Feng Qian · 2023

Mathematical Modeling and Robust Multi-Objective Optimization of the Two-Dimensional Benzene Alkylation Reactor with Dry Gas Open

Meng‐Lin Yang, Feifei Shen, Zhencheng Ye, Wenli Du · 2022

The benzene alkylation reactor using the dry gas is the most significant equipment in the ethylbenzene manufacturing process. In this paper, a two-dimensional homogeneous model is developed for steady state simulation of the industrial mul…

A Novel Multi-Sensor Data-Driven Approach to Source Term Estimation of Hazardous Gas Leakages in the Chemical Industry Open

Zi–Qiang Lang, Bing Wang, Yi‐Ting Wang, Chenxi Cao, Peng Xin , et al. · 2022

Source term estimation (STE) is crucial for understanding and addressing hazardous gas leakages in the chemical industry. Most existing methods basically use an atmospheric transport and dispersion (ATD) model to predict the concentrations…

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