Alcemy provides data-driven technology to enable customers to produce low-carbon concrete reliably at scale. Alcemy for cement with its predictive quality monitoring and control is an important building block for the production of clinker efficient cements with lower water-cement ratio. In the cement plant, alcemy utilizes existing laboratory data on cement chemistry, mineralogy, and particle size distribution to predict cement strength and dynamically calculate the required fineness parameters for the cement mill.

Description of Technology:

In the cement plant, Alcemy utilizes existing laboratory data on cement chemistry, mineralogy, and particle size distribution to predict cement strength and dynamically calculate the required fineness parameters for the cement mill. The control room of the cement plant receives a recommendation for the fineness from alcemy and is therefore able to respond directly to material fluctuations. Alcemy’s recipe optimizer module constantly searches for changes in the ingredients and mix proportions to always produce cost-optimally even in times of constant change. In this way, not only is the quality of new cements monitored and controlled more carefully, but also significant cost savings are achieved. The Alcemy system also enables the handling of demanding low-clinker cements.

Sector:

Cement/Concrete

Type of Supplier:

Value Chain Supplier

Supplier Geography:

Germany, United States, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic

Expected Capacity (Mt/Year):

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Current Capacity (Mt/Year):

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