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EU funding (€2,576,988): Data and decentralized Artificial intelligence for a competitive and green European metallurgy industry Hor1 Sept 2022 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Data and decentralized Artificial intelligence for a competitive and green European metallurgy industry
Energy-intensive industries, embedded in many strategic value chains, make up more than half of the energy consumption of the European industry and reducing their CO2 intensity is crucial for meeting the objectives of the Paris agreement. Within EIIs, metallurgy poses a major challenge due to the trade-off that must be found between maintaining economic profitability, while progressively implementing the required transformations for a greener production. While digitalisation is generating a data deluge, Artificial Intelligence cannot be fully adopted due to limitations to share data between several factories and the heterogeneity of systems that hinders the replicability of AI. ALCHIMIA aims to build a platform based on Federated Learning and Continual Learning to help big European metallurgy industries unlock the full potential of AI to support the needed transformations to create high-quality, competitive, efficient and green manufacturing processes. The project will address the challenges of the steel sector, creating an innovative system that automates and optimises the production process dynamically with a holistic approach that includes scrap recycling and steelmaking. ALCHIMIA will find an optimal mix to reduce energy consumption, emissions and waste generation of steelmaking while guaranteeing to obtain high-quality products. The replicability and scalability of ALCHIMIA will be enabled through a complementary use case for the manufacturing of automotive parts. The developed system will be used for prognostic optimisation of the mix of input materials charged in the furnaces to obtain a certain product quality that matches the customers' specifications while reducing the environmental impact and the energy consumption. ALCHIMIA will not only seek the optimal mix for the charge of metallurgy furnace, it will also determine the best combination of learning capacities to enable a smooth green transition for all industries thanks to unprecedented collaboration
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Cardiff University | ? |
| Atos IT Solutions And Services Iberia SL | €441,788 |
| Celsa France | €449,575 |
| Celsa Huta Ostrowiec SP Z OO | €0.00 |
| Compania Espanola de Laminacion SL | €0.00 |
| Exus Software Monoprosopi Etairia Periorismenis Evthinis | €217,000 |
| Fonderia Di Torbole Srl | €304,500 |
| Pilenga Baldassarre Foundry Srl | €0.00 |
| Scuola Superiore Di Studi Universitari E Di Perfezionamento S Anna | €615,000 |
| VDEH-BETRIEBSFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT GmbH | €549,125 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070046
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The current state is available on the following page: Cardiff University, Cardiff.
