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The quality of calcined petroleum coke used in primary aluminum production is affected by each of the refining and calcining processes including choice of crude, many of the initial refinery processing steps, coking, calcining as well as the handling systems between the refinery, calciner and final customer. This paper will discuss how each of these processes affects the final quality of the resulting calcined coke to give insight as to how refining economics will be affecting calcined coke quality in the future.
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Vitchus, B., Cannova, F., Childs, H. (2016). Calcined Coke from Crude Oil to Customer Silo. In: Tomsett, A., Johnson, J. (eds) Essential Readings in Light Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48200-2_1
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