Abstract
Traditionally recipes have used 3000 Blaine dust in the carbon pastes due to limitations that existed previously in the processing equipment particularly in the classifying, weighing, preheating and mixing stages. The optimum processing conditions will change for different recipe conditions and different equipment capabilities. For a given paste plant design, the recipe should be chosen requiring optimum processing conditions as dictated by the plant equipment limitations.
This investigation demonstrates how the paste consistency of different recipes can be altered through adjusting the parameters in the preheating, mixing, forming and cooling stages to produce differing levels of anode quality. This was examined on pilot and production scale, with tests on both vibrated and pressed anodes
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Hulse, K.L., Perruchoud, R.C., Fischer, W.K., Welch, B.J. (2016). Process Adaptations for Finer Dust Formulations: Mixing and Forming. In: Tomsett, A., Johnson, J. (eds) Essential Readings in Light Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48200-2_42
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