History of computer control of Aluminum reduction cells

V Potocnik, M Reverdy - Light Metals 2021: 50th Anniversary Edition, 2021 - Springer
Computer control of aluminum reduction cells started in the early 1960s, first for energy input
by anode beam movement and alumina feeding by monitoring the change of cell resistance …

Anode effect prediction based on a singular value thresholding and extreme gradient boosting approach

KB Zhou, ZX Zhang, J Liu, ZX Hu… - Measurement Science …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
An anode effect often occurs during the process of aluminum electrolysis that will cause
large energy consumption and low efficiency in aluminum production, thus how to identify …

A modified neighborhood mutual information and light gradient boosting machine-based long-term prediction approach for anode effect

H Pan, L Kong, X Chen, K Zhou, J Liu… - … Science and Technology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The anode effect (AE) often occurs in the aluminum electrolysis process, which seriously
affects production efficiency and causes large energy consumption. Therefore, predicting AE …

Estudo da adsorção do perfluorcarbono tetrafluormetano e ácido fluorídrico em leito de óxido de neodímio.

MSA Yamazaki - 2020 - teses.usp.br
O consumo de terras-raras leves, em especial neodímio, cresceu muito nos últimos anos e
tem perspectivas de um crescimento ainda maior nos próximos anos. O principal processo …

[PDF][PDF] Low-Cost PFC Analyzer for Early Anode Effect Detection

H Roustan - icsoba.org
The anode effect is a major and unfortunately recurrent malfunction of aluminum reduction
cells. Process control algorithms implemented in the pot controller can detect this problem …

Recent on-line measurements of individual anode currents at Alouette

JW Evens, L Dion, F Laflamme, CL Lagacé - 2016 - constellation.uqac.ca
Since early 2014, Alouette has used a system provided by Wireless Industrial Technologies
(WIT) to measure individual anode currents on two pots. The system works by measuring the …

Influence of hooding conditions on gas composition at duct end of an electrolysis cell

L Dion, L Kiss, S Poncsák, CL Lagacé - 2016 - constellation.uqac.ca
Aluminum smelters are known to be important producers of perfluorocarbons (PFC). These
gases are generated when the localized overvoltage in the cell exceeds the threshold …