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Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
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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
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110 Control for Aluminum Production
In general, it is found that a pot at risk list of greater than ve in one pot-
room is near the maximum that can be handled without tapouts and/or
loss of a number of pots in a week, causing an inability to reconstruct
them and loss of pot production days.
Using this method, it is possible to operate smelters with multiple
potlines with zero tapouts for a number of years (e.g., Boyne Smelters in
Queensland, Australia, in 2001/2002). The consequent reduction in oper-
ating costs is in the range $0.5 to $1 million per year, in the case where
the power contract is not take or pay. If the power contract is take ...
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ISBN: 9781466514690