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CarbonRe gains valuable feedback from UK plant visit

24 April 2023, Published under Cement News

The machine learning (ML) team at CarbonRe recently visited Breedon 's Hope Cement Works in Derbyshire, UK and spent a day talking with plant operators who are working with the company’s Delta Zero product for kiln and preheater optimisation. CarbonRe found that a major theme stood out for them on their plant visit, the human side of process engineering. Each operator has their own preferences and biases in how they operate the plant which affects how each operator trusts and uses C...

Throwing AI into the cement decarbonisation mix

11 April 2023, Published under Cement News

While reducing the carbon footprint of the cement industry is a global challenge, there are technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), available today that are enabling cement producers to transition to net zero.  By Carbon Re, UK. Figure 1: artificial intelligence can help cement plants to reduce their carbon footprint and fuel costs There is no silver bullet to reduce carbon emissions in the cement industry. Achieving this by 2030 will require a collective effort from...

Carbon Re report assesses technologies for decarbonisation

07 February 2023, Published under Cement News

New research by Carbon Re has found that the cement industry could deploy a combination of 13 existing technologies to reduce CO 2 emissions by 0.8Gt per year.   What’s more, the combination of just three technologies can deliver 81 per cent of this impact, according to the Carbon Re report “Three technologies to reduce climate change” . These are: Substitute Cementitious Materials (SCM), biomass and waste alternative fuels and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve processes...