Modelling of thermal and sodium expansion in prebaked aluminium reduction cells

TMS Light Metals

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 603-610

  Sun, Yang ^a   Wang, Qianpu ^b   Rye, Ketil Å ^c   Sørlie, Morten ^c   Øye, Harald A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Elkem Carbon AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM REDUCTION CELLS; BAKING PROPERTIES; CARBON CATHODES;

CALCINATION; CATHODES; DEFORMATION; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITIZATION; HEATING FURNACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SODIUM; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL EXPANSION;

ALUMINUM METALLURGY;

EID: 1442332142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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