AL01 - Historical Development of Aluminium Technologies in Germany

Horst Peters

ATC, Germany

AL02 - Experience of Potline Restarts in the TRIMET Group

Janik Brenk¹, Roman Düssel¹, Matthias Dechent², Oliver Marzin², Christian Erkes³, Richard Meier³, Nicolas Pasquier⁴, Hanno Vogel¹, Remi Krachewski⁴, Patrice Battistella⁴

1: TRIMET Aluminum SE, Essen, Germany; 2: TRIMET Aluminium SE, Voerde, Germany; 3: TRIMET Aluminium SE, Hamburg, Germany; 4: TRIMET France, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France

AL04 - Successful 72-Hour Sleeping Mode Operation on AP40 Pots in Kitimat Smelter - A Case Study.

Pradeep Varma Kalidindi¹, Jennifer Petten¹, Kara Chisholm¹, Pierre-luc Voyer², Patrice Desrosiers²

1: Rio Tinto BC Works, Kitimat, Canada; 2: Technical services Atlantic -Rio Tinto, Saguenay, Canada

AL05 - EGA Experience in Improving Cell Performance through Design and Control System Upgrade of INALUM Sumitomo S170 Technology

Alexander Arkhipov, Alexander Mukhanov, Ievgen Necheporenko, Ilia Dorokhov, Dany Lavoie, Konstantin Nikandrov, Jamal Alhemeiri, Abdalla Alzarooni, Abdulaziz Sarhan, Pablo Navarro

Emirates Global Aluminium, United Arab Emirates

AL06 - Scaling Potline Amperage Due to Rectifier Maintenance in DX Technology Line 8

Praveen Kumar Gupta, Satheesh Mani

emirates global aluminum (EGA), United Arab Emirates

AL07 - Seasonal Protocol - Strategies to Improve the Thermal Balance in Potline

Swapnil Sahu, Abdullah Al Yarubi, Roa Al Shizawi, Ali Al Badi, Abdullah Al Dhahli, Mohammed Al Mudallwi, Said Al Hinai, Javier Navia, Ciro Kato, Agnello Borim

Sohar Aluminium, Oman

AL08 - SmartCrane Contributes To Proactive Decision Making And Optimization Of Electrolysis Process

Frederic Moreira Pereira, Vincent Delcourt, Clement Pessemesse

Fives Aluminium, France

AL09 - Pot Control Systems and Safety. Lessons Learned from Real Potline Incidents.

Dinesh Umapathi, Pierre Marcellin

RIO TINTO, France

AL10 - Development, Testing and Deployment of the METRICS Pot Control System

Sylvain Fardeau¹, Anne Resch², Finn Breidenbach², Kay Kessel², Roman Düssel², Valentin Olbricht², Wim Toebes³, Thomas Bertram³, Matthias Dechent⁴

1: Trimet France, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France; 2: Trimet Aluminium SE, Essen, Germany; 3: Trimet Aluminium SE, Voerde, Germany; 4: Trimet Aluminium SE, Hamburg, Germany

AL11 - An Explainable AI Approach for Predictive Bath Temperature Regulation

Prateek Kumar Lath¹, Anish Das¹, Amit Gupta², Kamal Kant Pandey¹, Anshu Mangal¹, Kapil Kumar¹

1: Hindalco Industries Limited, India; 2: Aditya Birla Science and Technology Company Pvt. Ltd

AL13 - EGA Pot Feed Systems - Challenges and Solutions

Budoor Ali¹, Mohamad Abdulghafor Hussein², Ajay Salian³, Auhood Aljasmi⁴

1: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), United Arab Emirates; 2: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), United Arab Emirates; 3: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), United Arab Emirates; 4: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), United Arab Emirates

AL15 - Arguments for Keeping Uniform Alumina Concentration and Anode-Cathode Distance in Aluminium Electrolysis Cells

Asbjørn Solheim

SINTEF Industry, Norway

AL16 - A Local Alumina and ACD Observer for Aluminum Electrolysis Cells Using Anode Currents

Andrea Mattioni², Lucas Jose da Silva Moreira¹, Gildas Besançon², Mirko Fiacchini², Herve Roustan¹

1: Rio Tinto, France; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-Lab, France

AL17 - Research on Different Characteristics of a Cell and the Implementation of Local Alumina Control

Zhibin Zhao¹, Shuzhen Ma², Ruisheng Zhang², Chao Liu¹, Wei Liu¹, Junfeng Qi¹, Michael Ren³

1: Shenyang Aluminium& Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute, China; 2: Yunnan Wenshan Aluminum Smelter Co., Ltd.,China; 3: Sunlightmetal Consulting Inc

AL18 - Decoding Alumina Dissolution: Navigating the Dynamic Interplay of Bath Composition

Jonathan Alarie¹, Martin Truchon¹, László I. Kiss¹, Lukas Dion¹, Sébastien Guérard², Jean-François Bilodeau²

1: UQAC, REGAL, CURAL, GRIPS, Canada; 2: ARDC, Rio Tinto, Canada

AL19 - Multilevel Robust State Observer for Spatial Alumina Concentration Estimation

Luning Ma¹, Choon-Jie Wong¹, Jie Bao¹, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos¹, Barry Welch¹, Jing Shi², Maitha Faraj², Mohamed Mahmoud²

1: The University of New South Wales, Australia; 2: Emirates Global Aluminium, United Arab Emirates

AL20 - Enhancing Operational Efficiency through Advanced Thermal Management Tools

Patrice Côté, Sébastien Guérard, Jean-François Bilodeau

Rio Tinto – Aluminum Technology Solutions, Jonquière, Canada

AL27 - Impact of Lining Material Degradation on Performance of Hall-Héroult Reduction Cell

Ali Jasim, Yousef Ahli, Alexander Mukhanov, Sheikha Fatima Almualla

Emirates global Aluminium, United Arab Emirates

AL24 - Production Process Optimization of a 240 kA Potline Under SAMI’s Deep Energy-Saving Cell Technology

Hongwu Hu¹, Xuede Gong², Fei Yan², Yafeng Liu¹, Jinlong Hou¹, Wei Liu¹, Xuan Wang¹, Xi Cao¹, Xin Zhao¹, Michael Ren³

1: Shenyang Aluminum and Magnesium Engineering and Research Institute Co., Ltd. Shenyang, China; 2: Guangxi Baise Guangtou Yinhai Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd. Baise, China; 3: Sunlightmetal Consulting Inc. Toronto, Canada

AL25 - Application of Shell Heat Exchanger Supplied with Compressed Air for Pot Sidewall Cooling

Gratha Adhitya Putra, Yusuf Iskandar, Ade Buandra, Edi Mugiono

PT. Inalum, Indonesia

AL03 - Ma’aden Reduction Potlines Partial Failure Incident and Recovery

Subah Al-Shamari, Kishor Pant, Brent Pekoba, Abdulrahman Al-Shammari, Mohammed AlHunaini

Ma'aden

AL59 - The Complexity of PFC Generation in Alumina Reduction

Morten Isaksen¹, Henrik Åsheim¹, Norbert Schmidbauer², Ove Hermansen²

1: Hydro Aluminium AS, Norway; 2: NILU, Norway

AL60 - A Review of Equipment for Accurate PFC Measurements

Luis H Espinoza-Nava¹, Jerry Marks²

1: L Espinoza Nava Consulting - LLC, United States of America; 2: J Marks & Associates LLC

AL61 - New Products from Sulphate Wet Scrubbers of Aluminium Reduction

Andrey Gushchinskiy, Alexander Suss, Natalia Kuznetsova, Dmitry Abramychev, Andrey Panov, Vitaly Pingin

RUSAL Engineering and Technology Center, Russian Federation

AL26 - Cell Design Modifications to Reduce Specific Energy Consumption

Maria Carolina Daviou¹, Mariano Rivera¹, Maria Fernanda Jaitman¹, Esteban Cobo¹, Dagoberto Schubert Severo²

1: Aluar Aluminio Argentino; 2: CAETE Engenharia Ltda

AL29 - Behavior of Different Lining Designs with FCN in High Productivity Pots in ALBA

Abdulla Habib Ahmed Ali¹, Nabeel Ebrahim Mohd AlJallabi², Mohsen Ahmed Shukralla³, Hassan Almohri⁴, Vasantha Kumar Rangasamy⁵, Mohamed Edrabooh⁶, Rakesh Shrivastava⁷, Dagoberto Schubert Severo⁸

1: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 2: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 3: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 4: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 5: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 6: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 7: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (ALBA); 8: CAETE Engenharia Ltda, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

AL30 - The Successful Testing and Implementation of AP30 Technology Spinoff Pot Designs at Alcoa Fjarðaál

Katarzyna Aleksandra Mirek-Sliwa¹, Brian Zukas², Ketil Rye³, Patrice Doiron⁴, Kristinn Ingimarsson⁵

1: Alcoa – Operational Excellence Center of Excellence, Kristiansand, Norway; 2: Alcoa – Operational Excellence Center of Excellence, New Kensington, USA; 3: Alcoa – Operational Excellence Center of Excellence, Mosjøen, Norway; 4: Alcoa – Operational Excellence Center of Excellence, Deschambault, Canada; 5: Alcoa Fjarðaál, Reyðarfjörður, Iceland

AL48 - Successful Implementation of INALUM Pilot Cells Using EGA Cell Upgrade Technological Know-How

Sajid Hussain¹, Nadia Ahli¹, Abdalla Alzarooni¹, Maitha Ismail Faraj¹, Abdulaziz Sarhan¹, Hassan Alhayas¹, Khaldun M. Badra², Ferdy Rahadian², Recky Suharmon², Ardyanta G. K. Tarigan², Haris Budiman², Edi Mugiono², Parindra Kusriantoko²

1: Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), United Arab Emirates; 2: PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (INALUM), North Sumatra Province, Indonesia.

AL49 - New Cell Preheat Shunt Design in EGA Al Taweelah Potline 3

Abani Kumar Meher, Mahasal Khan, Mohamed Saifuzzama, Mohammed Noor Yahya Ahmad Al Jaziri, Vinod Janardhanan Nair, Shirish Kumar Karahe, Imran Shahzad, Abdallah Abdelrahman Abdallah Rahbar, Kochali Zakir Hussain, Sooraj Soman Nair

EGA, United Arab Emirates

AL50 - The Robustness Of Ready To Use Cathodes (RuC®): A Mature Technology Available For The Primary Aluminium Industry

Oscar Alberto Vera Garcia, Nicolas Gros, Till Reek, Frank Hiltmann

Tokai COBEX GmbH

AL51 - EGA Experience with Full Copper Cathode Collector Bars

Nadia Ahli, Atif Al Ansari, Mohamed Tawfik Boraie Ahmed

emirates global aluminum (EGA), United Arab Emirates

AL62 - Treatment and Valorisation of Solid Wastes from Smelters with the Low-Caustic Leaching and Liming Process

Laurent Birry, Hervé Gauthier

Rio Tinto, Canada

AL63 - Massive Recycling of Underpot Material to Pots at Sohar Aluminium Smelter

Haitham Al Lahouri, Ali Al Badi, Abdullah Al Alawi, Abdullah Al Dhahli, Vegi Sreeramu, Said Al Hinai, Swapnil Sahu, Ciro Kato, Javier Navia, Agnello Borim

Sohar Aluminium, Oman

AL64 - Study on Utilization and Disposal Technology of Spent Potlining

Kaibin Chen^1,2, Tingting Du², Lizhen Sun², Jianjun Liu², Ruonan Li Li², Zhongsheng Luo²

1: Central South University, Changsha, China; 2: Zhengzhou Non-ferrous Metals Research Institute Co.Ltd of CHALCO, China

AL65 - Recovery of Aluminium from Metal Pads in Shutdown Aluminium Electrolysis Cells

Samuel Senanu, Martin Syvertsen, Erik Koren, Kurt Sandaunet, Arne Petter Ratvik

SINTEF AS, Norway