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A potline has been operated with lithium-modified bath for the last four years. All technical results have shown significant improvement including current efficiency (+2%), specific power consumption (−3.2%), and net carbon consumption (−1%). This paper describes the original test and effects on the bath, metal, alumina, anodes, and resistance.
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Editor’s note: This paper is reprinted from Light Metals 1983, edited by E.M. Adkins, The Metallurgical Society of AIME, Warrendale, Pennsylvania. Copyright 1982.
Mr. Cheney has been employed at Intalco Aluminum Corp. since its beginning in 1965. He has been in the Reduction Department for 19 years in various capacities concerned with potline production and process development. He has been superintendent for the past ten years and is a member of The Metallurgical Society of AIME.
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Cheney, R.G. Potline Operation with Lithium-Modified Bath. JOM 35, 47–51 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03339188
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03339188