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ABB and Carbon Re agree joint approach to enhance low-carbon cement production with artificial intelligence
ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Carbon Re, an industrial artificial intelligence provider, to assess ways to accelerate the decarbonization of cement production while improving productivity. Together they will explore a joint go-to-market solution for the cement industry which will potentially unite ABB’s domain expertise and experience in delivering successful global automation and advanced process control (APC) projects with Carbon Re’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and cement expertise.
Building on the success of an exploratory project at a cement plant in Czechia, ABB will explore opportunities to integrate Carbon Re’s AI platform on top of its existing ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer for cement APC solution. Carbon Re leverages AI and ML technologies, which could add continuously updating, cloud-based optimization software to ABB’s portfolio. With the addition of this AI layer, Expert Optimizer targets – such as post combustion oxygen to improve combustion efficiency – would automatically be set based on ever-changing plant conditions. These automated adjustments would deliver enhanced operational and energy efficiency benefits.