AI-based optimization method achieves breakthrough in ethylene manufacturing: higher profits and reduced carbon emissions
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The latest study in Engineering reveals a groundbreaking approach to greener ethylene manufacturing using a novel physically consistent machine learning (PCML)-based hybrid modeling framework for steam thermal cracking, a highly energy-intensive and carbon-emitting process. Conducted by a team from the University of Sheffield and Southeast University, this research has significant implications for global sustainable chemical production.
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