Abstract: Designing biomass-derived activated carbons (ACs) is challenged by heterogeneous synthesis routes and multiobjective trade-offs among specific surface area (S_BET), total pore volume (V_T), and mass yield (M_yield). This study presents a mechanism-enhanced multitask distillation framework (AC-ResKD) built on a shared residual deep neural network (ResDNN) and dual priors from prediction-level and teacher-aware knowledge distillation (PD-KD and TA-KD). Process factors (agent, activation temperature/time, impregnation, heating rate, precursor composition) are modeled jointly with teacher predictions to learn an interpretable mapping across combined and separated one-step/two-step datasets. All results are reported as the mean and 95% confidence intervals over 20 repeated random 80/20 splits. On separated routes, TA-KD achieves robust accuracy for S_BET (one-step: R²=0.806 [0.787, 0.824]; two-step: R²=0.801 [0.773, 0.830]) and V_T (one-step: R²=0.787 [0.764, 0.810]; two-step: R²=0.817 [0.791, 0.843]). On the combined set, TA-KD yields the strongest gains for M_yield (R²=0.816 [0.802, 0.831]; root mean squared error E_RMS=5.047 [4.85353, 5.242]), while improving S_BET and V_T as well. Overall, M_yield is the most consistent beneficiary of distillation, and route-separated training exhibits improved monotonicity and reduced bias relative to combined training; the two-step route shows stronger V_T predictability consistent with a pre-carbonization priming effect. Explainability based on permutation feature importance (PFI) and Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) identifies teacher outputs, agent type, and thermal severity as dominant drivers. Impregnation governs V_T in one-step activation, while pyrolysis variables rise in importance in two-step activation. Robust Pareto screening with quantile-window extraction delivers agent- and route-specific operating envelopes (temperature–dose–time), enabling simultaneous S_BET/V_T improvement under bounded M_yield penalties. AC-ResKD thus provides accurate, interpretable, and actionable guidance for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted AC design in heterogeneous, data-scarce settings.

基于机制增强的多任务蒸馏技术用于生物质活性炭的预测性、可解释性设计

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