A steady state electrothermic simulation analysis of a carbothermic reduction reactor for the production of aluminium

Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Modeling of Materials, Minerals and Metals Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 273-282

  Gerogiorgis, Dimitrios I ^a   Ydstie, B Erik ^a   Seetharaman, Sridhar S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC REACTORS; IONIZATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION;

CARBOTHERMIC REDUCTION REACTOR;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 0035789254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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