Advancing multi-site emission control: A physics-informed transfer learning framework with mixture of experts for carbon-pollutant synergy
Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) converts urban waste to energy but simultaneously emits carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and multiple regulated air pollutants whose formation is tightly coupled within a single combustion system. Controlling these emissions across a network of diverse facilities poses a fundamentally different challenge from optimising a single plant: data-driven models trained at one site capture local statistical patterns that rarely survive transfer to another, because they lack the physical constraints and regime-level structure needed to generalise. Here we show that shared emission-control relationships can be identified across heterogeneous MSWI plants when physical conservation laws, operating-regime heterogeneity and carbon-pollutant coupling are treated jointly. We develop a carbon-pollutant mixture-of-experts (CPMoE) model that routes process observations through regime-specific expert networks under conservation-based regularisation, and combine it with physics-informed transfer learning to adapt a reference model to new facilities. Across 13 plants, CPMoE predicts six major pollutants and a composite system-level risk index with source-domain R2 of 0.668-0.904 and 0.666-0.970, respectively; after transfer to 12 target plants these values remain 0.661-0.842 and 0.610-0.841. Expert-utilisation patterns show that adaptation proceeds through structured regime re-weighting rather than re-learning from scratch. Embedding the transferred model in an offline digital twin and screening candidate operating adjustments against historical process records yields consistent risk-index reductions of 3.6-6.3% with simultaneous pollutant co-reductions in 94-100% of evaluated samples. These findings suggest a practical route toward transferable, system-level decision support for carbon-pollutant co-control in heterogeneous waste-to-energy networks.
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