Light Metals 2008

Klappentext Volume four of four: This publication includes papers on electrode technology from the 2008 TMS Annual Meeting. Other volumes include papers on alumina and bauxite, aluminum reduction, hot and cold rolling and recycling aluminum. From the 2008 TMS Annual Meeting, held March 9-12, 2008, in New Orleans, LA. Zusammenfassung Volume four of four: This publication includes papers on electrode technology from the 2008 TMS Annual Meeting. Other volumes include papers on alumina and bauxite! aluminum reduction! hot and cold rolling and recycling aluminum. From the 2008 TMS Annual Meeting! held March 9-12! 2008! in New Orleans! LA. . Inhaltsverzeichnis 15171313

Inhalt
Preface. Editor's Biography. Program Organizer's. Aluminum Committee. Alumina and Bauxite. HSEC. Safety Performance at Alunorte (Jorge Lima). Tailings Impoundment Life Extension at Sherwin Alumina: Success Breeds Its Own Challenges (Thomas Ballou, and Ed Peterson). Proposed Mechanism for the Formation of Dust Horizons on Bauxite Residue Disposal Areas (Craig Klauber, Nicole Harwood, Renee Hockridge, and Campbell Middleton). Waste into Wealth (S. Balasubramaniam, and R. Vasantha Kumar). Short- and Long-Range Order in Smelter Grade Alumina - Development of Nano- and Microstructure during the Calcination of Bayer Gibbsite (Linus Perander, Zoran D. Zujovic, Margaret M. Hyland, Mark E. Smith, Luke A. O'Dell, and James B. Metson). Equipment. Advanced Filtration Methods for Pregnant Liquor Purification (Reinhard Bott, Thomas Langeloh, and Juergen Hahn). Digestion Energy Efficiency at RTA Yarwun Alumina Refinery (Stephen Austin, and Samantha Parry). Operational Experience with a Brownfield Expansion Project in Sayanogorsk, Russia (Andreas Wolf, Peter Hilgraf, Arne Hilck, and Sergey V. Marshalko). MAX HTTMSodalite Scale Inhibitor: Plant Experience and Impact on the Process (Donald Spitzer, Owen Chamberlain, Calvin Franz, Morris E. Lewellyn, and Qi Dai). How to Achieve High Availability with Large Calciners and Avoid Unforseen Downtime (Pekka Hiltunen, Roger Bligh, Cornelis Klett, Michael Missalla, and Hans-Werner Schmidt). Customized Descaling Robots - Improving Worker's Health and Safety, Increasing Alumina Production Capacity (Clement Potvin, Antonio Pucci, Claude Caya, Don Puxley, and Eloise Harvey). Determination of a Suitable Dewatering Technology for Filtration of Bauxite after Pipeline Transport (Adriano Campos, and Reinhard Bott). Bauxite. Chinese Bauxite and Its Influences on Alumina Production in China (Songqing Gu). Alunorte Bauxite Dewatering Station - a Unique Experience (Ayana Oliveira, Juarez Dutra, and Jorge Lima). A New Method Using Hydraulic Excavator and Tractor on Paragominas Bauxite Mine (Octavio Guimaraes, Henrique Cesar Vieira Santos, and Hildegundes Silva). Design and Operation of the World's First Long Distance Bauxite Slurry Pipeline (Ramesh Gandhi, Michael Weston, Maru Talavera, Geraldo Pereira Brittes, and Eder Barbosa). Bauxite to Gallium - The Electronic Metal of the Twenty-First Century (Chitta Mishra, and M. K. B. Nair). Behaviour of Berylium in Alumina Production from Bauxites by Bayer Process and Development of Reliable Method of Its Determination (Alexander Suss, Irina Paromova, Andrey Panov, Olga V. Shipova, and Natalia N. Kutkova). Impact of Jamaican Bauxite Mineralogy on Plant Operations (Desmond Lawson, Ab Rijkeboer, Lawrence Andermann, and Austin Mooney). Additives. New Crystal Growth Modifiers for Bayer Process (Dimitri Kouznetsov, Jianjun Liu, Kevin O'Brien, James Counter, and John Kildea). The Effect of DSP Structure on Removal of Impurities from Refinery Liquor and Efficiency of Alkali Recovery Process (A. Kuvyrkina, N. Kuznetsova, A. Lapin, A. Suss, and Andrey Panov). Performance Appraisal of Evaporation System with Scale Inhibitor Application in Alunorte Plant (Ayana Oliveira, Juarez Dutra De Moraes, Jefferson Dos Santos Batista, Jorge Lima, Ricardo Lyan Carvalho Diniz, and Emiliano Repetto). Cost Savings by Improved Filtration and Washing of Al-Hydrate Product (Reinhard Bott, Thomas Langeloh, and Juergen Hahn). Autoprecipitation Control with HXPAM Technology (Qi Dai, Scott Moffatt, and Morris Lewellyn). Application and Performance Characteristics of Superfloc(r) TF-8000 - A New HXPAM Based Hydrate Flocculant (Franklyn Ballentine, Scott Moffatt, and Pat Clement). Operations. The Kinetics of Quartz Dissolution in Caustic Solutions and Synthetic Bayer Liquors (Bingan Xu, Christine Wingate, and Peter Smith). Potential Improvements of Bauxite Atmospheric Digestion Circuit (Alexander Suss, Nikolay Ivanushkin, Irina Paromova, Anatoly Lapin, Andrey Panov, Tatiana Gabrielyan, S. Snurnitzyna, and T. Martynyuk). Process Diagnosis Based on Neural Network Expert System for Gas Suspension Calc