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Area of Science:

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Reaction Kinetics

Background:

  • Mechanistic reaction rate models are crucial for reaction engineering but are difficult and time-consuming to develop.
  • Current methods are expert-dependent and can introduce structural bias.
  • Automated approaches are needed to improve efficiency and accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a two-stage automated framework for identifying minimal reaction networks and generating interpretable rate expressions.
  • To enhance the accuracy, data efficiency, and physical consistency of reaction models.
  • To accelerate knowledge discovery and enable the creation of physics-grounded digital twins in reaction engineering.

Main Methods:

  • A two-stage framework combining sparse optimization for network identification and symbolic regression (SR) for rate expression generation.
  • Introduction of a novel substructure-decomposition strategy to constrain SR for mechanistically meaningful and interpretable models.
  • Evaluation on methanol synthesis and enzymatic reaction systems, incorporating model-based design of experiments.

Main Results:

  • The framework accurately identifies minimal reaction networks and generates interpretable rate expressions.
  • Demonstrated high accuracy and strong data efficiency across tested reaction systems.
  • Ensured robust physical consistency of the developed models.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed automated framework significantly accelerates the development of mechanistic reaction models.
  • It overcomes limitations of traditional expert-driven approaches, reducing bias and labor.
  • This work paves the way for enhanced knowledge discovery and the development of digital twins in reaction engineering.