Performance of secondary aluminum melting: Thermodynamic analysis and plant-site experiments

Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1433-1443

  Li, Tianxiang ^a   Hassan, Mohamed ^a   Kuwana, Kazunori ^a   Saito, Kozo ^a   King, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum melting; Energy efficiency; NOx formation control

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745851105     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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