Heat losses
Excess air, false air, and unstable burns waste fuel every hour.
Agent A7 · Energy & emissions
Lower energy, lower carbon, on spec.
The energy & emissions agent optimizes thermal and electrical energy, pushes the alternative-fuel rate, and holds CO₂, NOx, and SOx within limits, turning decarbonization pressure into a controlled variable.
−6%
Specific thermal energy
−9%
Thermal CO₂ per tonne
64%
Thermal substitution rate
−12%
NOx emissions
Energy and emissions pull against each other.
Push alt-fuel and NOx can spike. Chase energy and clinker quality can slip. Under carbon pricing and CBAM, every trade-off has a cost the plant runs blind on in real time.
CO₂ exposure
Carbon pricing and CBAM put a price on every avoidable tonne.
Emissions spikes
Pushing fuel or air the wrong way trips NOx and SOx limits.
Blind balancing
Energy, quality, and emissions are balanced by feel, not by model.
Perception
It accounts for every joule and tonne.
The agent builds a live thermal and electrical energy balance and an emissions picture across the pyroprocess and mills, attributing energy and CO₂ to each part of the plant.
- Live energy balance, thermal and electrical.
- Emissions model for CO₂, NOx, and SOx.
- Carbon accounting per tonne of clinker and cement.
Specific heat3.11 GJ/t
Specific power92 kWh/t
CO₂842 kg/t
NOx480 mg/Nm³
Thermal subst.64 %
Control
It optimizes the whole trade-off.
Working with the kiln agent, it maximizes alternative fuel and minimizes energy while keeping NOx, SOx, and clinker quality inside limits, the full multi-objective problem, solved live.
- Multi-objective optimizer: energy, carbon, emissions, quality.
- Alt-fuel maximizer within NOx / SOx limits.
- Load shifting for electrical cost and demand.
Alt-fuel target66 %
Excess airtrimmed
NOx headroom+40 mg
Power shifted2.1 MW
CO₂ avoided−9 %
Balance energy, carbon, and emissions.
Meter everything
Build a live thermal and electrical energy and emissions balance.
Find the trade-off
Solve the multi-objective problem across the plant.
Act with the kiln
Push alt-fuel and trim energy within emissions and quality limits.
Report carbon
Attribute CO₂ per tonne for carbon and CBAM reporting.
What the energy agent governs
Objectives
Specific thermal / electrical energy, CO₂, NOx, SOx, cost.
Levers
Alt-fuel rate, excess air, fuel mix, electrical load shifting.
Constraints
Emissions limits, clinker quality, kiln stability.
Reporting
CO₂ per tonne of clinker and cement for carbon / CBAM.
Coupling
Works jointly with the kiln and quality agents.
Integration
CEMS, fuel systems, meters via OPC UA / Modbus.
What optimized energy moves
Legacy control vs. Clinkum autonomy
Manual & rule-based
- Energy balanced by feel
- Alt-fuel kept conservative
- Emissions managed reactively
- Carbon reported after the month
- Trade-offs made in isolation
Clinkum
- Live energy and carbon balance
- Alt-fuel at the emissions limit
- NOx / SOx held proactively
- CO₂ attributed per tonne, live
- One multi-objective optimizer
“Carbon pricing turned energy into a board-level number. Making it a controlled variable, not a monthly report, changed how we run the kiln.”
Sustainability Manager · Building-materials group, 9 plants
Common questions
Jointly with the kiln agent, it maximizes substitution within NOx, SOx, and clinker-quality limits, backing off automatically when any constraint tightens.
It attributes CO₂ per tonne of clinker and cement continuously, giving auditable numbers for carbon pricing and CBAM.
Yes, it can shift flexible electrical load to reduce demand charges and time-of-use cost where the process allows.
CO₂, NOx, and SOx via your CEMS, alongside the full thermal and electrical energy balance.
Adjacent agents
Run this agent on your line.
Start a paid pilot on one kiln or mill, with a defined success metric on your data, under your security controls.