Skip to Main Content
Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
book

Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

by Mark P. Taylor, John J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
252 pages
8h 17m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
92 Control for Aluminum Production
number of sick pots. The extra attention needed by section operators or
pot controllers to tend sick pots has a negative inuence on the other
pots, with a general reduction in current efciency, plus attendant loss of
control of carbon and energy usage, and sometimes safety.
The analysis with respect to the above situation, therefore, is focused
on three issues:
1. The failure of the basal automated control loops: The change in the
sensed variable (for example voltage instability or noise) is not
actually diagnosed in terms of its cause. Rather, the use of a com-
parator against a target value or limit for t ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

New Appoaches in the Process Industries: The Manufacturing Plant of the Future

New Appoaches in the Process Industries: The Manufacturing Plant of the Future

Catherine Azzaro-Pantel, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont
Ion Beam Treatment of Polymers, 2nd Edition

Ion Beam Treatment of Polymers, 2nd Edition

Alexey Kondyurin, Marcela Bilek

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781466514690