Conference Agenda

Session

EL-4: Electrode Session 4

Time:

Tuesday, 29/Oct/2024:

10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Lorentz Petter Lossius
Session Chair: Houshang Alamdari

Location: Rhône 2

Presentations

10:30am - 11:00am
10 min Introduction + 20 min Presentation

EL13 - Thermal Cycling Tests on Dense Refractories

Jean Louis Guichard¹, Simon Aufranc², Christophe Molinier³, José Almeida⁴, Arnaud Bourgier⁵

¹ICAR-CM2T, France; ²ICAR-CM2T, France; ³Rio Tinto, France; ⁴Rio Tinto, France; ⁵Rio Tinto, France

11:00am - 11:20am

EL14 - Anode Baking Furnace with Optimized Heating Curves and Natural Gas Consumption Reduction at Sohar Aluminium

Hamdan Said Alalawi, Ahmed Belfoul, Mohammed Al Balushi, Raghu Nandan Joshi, Hamood Al Brashdi, Rashid Al Maamari, Shashi Sing, Javith Basha, Mahfoud Al Ghaithy, Ciro Kato, Olivier Rival

Sohar Aluminum, Oman

11:20am - 11:40am

EL15 - Challenges in Reduction of Stub to Carbon Voltage Drop for Amperage Increase

Anisha Rao Jonnalagadda, Dibyendu Ghosh, Girish Choudhary, Amresh Singh, Anoop Singh, Bibhuti Sahu, Sasikumar S, Sudhir Patel

Hindalco Industries Limited

11:40am - 12:00pm

EL16 - Modelling of Cast Iron to Carbon Electrical Contact Resistance to Reproduce Anode Voltage Measurements

Louis Bugnion¹, René von Kaenel¹, Roman Düssel², André van Haaren²

¹KAN-NAK SA, Switzerland; ²TRIMET Aluminium SE, Germany