摘要：As an important process during the cement production,grate cooler plays significance roles on clinker cooling and waste heat *** this paper,we measured experimentally the heat balance of the grate cooler,which provided initial operating parameters for ***,the grate cooler was simplified into a series-connected heat exchanger network by power flow *** the equivalent thermal resistance network provided the global constraints by Kirchhoff’s *** this basis,with the objectives of the minimum entropy generation numbers caused by heat transfer and viscous dissipation,solving a multi-objective optimization model achieved the Pareto Front by genetic *** selecting the scheme of the lowest fan power consumption obtained the optimal operating parameters of the grate *** results showed that the total mass flow of the optimized scheme did not change significantly compared with the original scheme,but the fan power consumption was 25.44%lower,and the heat recovery efficiency was 88.43%,which was improved by 11.35%.Furthermore,the analysis showed that the optimal operating parameters were affected by the local heat *** optimizing the diameter of clinker particles within the allowable industrial range,the clinker with particle diameter of 0.02 m had the optimal performance.