Applied Computing and KBR, Inc. today announced the launch of INSITE 3.0, a breakthrough AI-based platform designed to deliver low-emission, energy-efficient, and reliable ammonia production.
The solution combines UK-based Applied Computing’s pioneering foundational AI expertise for energy utilities with KBR’s global leadership in traditional and sustainable energy, high-end design and engineering, and critical infrastructure solutions.
Powered by Applied Computing’s Orbital AI model, INSITE 3.0 is an incremental change to KBR INSITE®, a digital platform that provides remote technical and advisory services for the operation of plants and other facilities. INSITE 3.0 is designed to help customers optimize daily operations, reduce operational costs, improve reliability and yield, and improve safety through AI integration that incorporates physics.
By operating trained, engineering-ready, prescriptive agent AI solutions, Applied Computing and KBR customers can become the definitive benchmark for productivity, energy performance, and safety.
“Ammonia plants are among the most complex industrial systems on the planet,” said Dan Jeavons, president of Applied Computing. “KBR’s ammonia license relationship represents 50% of the world’s capacity and gives us unprecedented scope to deploy INSITE 3.0 where it is needed most. The solution is designed to unlock value simply not possible with traditional systems by processing 100% of operational data in real time and delivering explainable physics-based insights that operators can trust and act on immediately.”
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Ammonia lies at the intersection of several urgent global pressures. In addition to supporting global food security through fertilizer production, hydrogen is also gaining interest as a zero-carbon fuel and as a solution for safely storing and transporting hydrogen, which is seen as key to reducing emissions in areas such as transportation and power generation. By operating trained, engineering-ready AI solutions, Applied Computing and KBR customers can become the definitive benchmark for productivity, energy performance, and safety.
“Ammonia is critical to both the global economy and the energy transition,” said Hari Ravindran, senior vice president of KBR’s Sustainable Technology Solutions business. “By combining KBR’s 75+ years of ammonia synthesis expertise with Applied Computing’s cutting-edge AI, we are delivering a solution that we believe will fundamentally change the way ammonia plants operate. INSITE 3.0, powered by Orbital, is designed to help our customers maximize yields, reduce emissions and optimize economics, a key imperative for the next decade.”
By combining fundamental AI with deep process expertise and a global ammonia footprint, Applied Computing and KBR aim to deliver a scalable approach to improving ammonia plant performance in an era where efficiency, resilience and decarbonization are increasingly interconnected.
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