Multivariate analysis and monitoring of the performance of aluminum reduction cells

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1311-1323

  Tessier, Jayson ^a   Duchesne, Carl ^a   Tarcy, Gary P ^b   Gauthier, Claude ^c   Dufour, Gilles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ALCOA TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALCOA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM REDUCTION; ALUMINUM REDUCTION CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS; LATENT VARIABLE; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; MODELING APPROACH; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIBLOCKS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PROCESS OPERATION; RAW MATERIAL PROPERTIES;

ALUMINUM; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ORE REDUCTION; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MONITORING;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856276034     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201258b     Document Type: Article

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