Carbon Re has revealed its new identity as Gigaton, ushering in a new era for the company as it builds “self-learning” control systems for plant operations.
The new systems will use artificial intelligence (AI), enabling them to learn as plant conditions change. The company is expected to release more about its system in the coming weeks.
“We, a team of AI scientists, process engineers and software geeks who had spent the past five years in control rooms, were perfectly placed to rethink industrial process control and optimisation from first principles,” the company said in its announcement.
“Solving this is one of the world’s most challenging control and machine learning problems. Non-linear data, continuous chemistry, complex high-heat combustion, long feedback loops, unimaginably large volumes of materials and often very old machinery.
“It requires an expert cross-disciplinary team of machine learning, control, automation, software and process engineers. And it requires a deep partnership with amazing engineers at customer sites.
“Our customers were starting to demand more. The most advanced customers understood that new infrastructure was required to deliver ROI today and, importantly, to build a future in which plants are fully autonomous.”
