Optimizing chemical production using data-driven, AI-enabled hybrid modeling

March 13, 2020 | 214 views

Smart use of your plant’s data can take process efficiency to a higher level. Hybrid models driven by artificial intelligence deliver the best results for the least effort. And you don’t need a data science degree to enjoy them. Data is everywhere these days – and the volumes of it are growing exponentially all the time. We’re used to smart uses of it in our everyday lives. Like Amazon and Netflix using our past behavior to tempt us with new products or shows, even making them more appealing by tailoring how they look based on carefully constructed, data-driven profiles of our tastes. Much of that heavy lifting is done by artificial intelligence (AI). In chemical production, process control systems have been collecting data measurements during continuous or batch manufacturing for decades.

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Maryland Chemical Company, Inc is a third-generation, Veteran-founded, certified women-owned chemical distribution company, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland founded in 1953. We are committed to our CUSTOMERS, our COMMUNITY and the ENVIRONMENT and pride ourselves on providing: Responsible and Reliable Service &Turnkey Storage & Management systems.

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How Chemical Companies Benefit from the Experience Economy

Article | February 10, 2020

To feel or experience from a business engagement started with customer experience mainly in the consumer products business. Today it has extended to even knowledge industries like the chemical industry where experiencing or feeling can be leveraged to include all stake holders from customers primarily to employees to supply chain people & suppliers and all else. With digital technologies this has become easier than before. The benefits from promoting the ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ emotion could be multifarious for the chemical industry as described in this article.

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Maryland Chemical Company, Inc is a third-generation, Veteran-founded, certified women-owned chemical distribution company, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland founded in 1953. We are committed to our CUSTOMERS, our COMMUNITY and the ENVIRONMENT and pride ourselves on providing: Responsible and Reliable Service &Turnkey Storage & Management systems.

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LSB Industries and Amogy Announce Collaboration Agreement to Develop End-to-End Supply Chain of Low-Carbon Ammonia as Transportation Fuel

Businesswire | May 31, 2023

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