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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
Content preview from Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
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Start of a New Culture
“Fire brigade, now. Powder only. No! Not water. No water at all.” The crew
leader’s voice was shaking.
The General Purpose Crane (GP) driver had driven over a pot reconstruc-
tion operation in line 1 with a full crucible of metal. And miscalculated.
The best part of two metric tons of metal had spilt on the hydraulics of the
Hitachi digger. The re raged up the digger and into the roof. Beneath it, the
potline bus bar was starting to warp on the operating oor, and there was
molten aluminum in the basement below the pot being excavated.
Rob had been called at 1 a.m., and it was now almost an hour later. Rob was
standing ...
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ISBN: 9781466514690