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The influence of pitch quality on anode carbon gasification

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posted on 2018-01-05, 10:01 authored by Khadam Hussain
The objective of this research is to investigate the gasification, in air and carbon dioxide, of anode carbons used in the aluminium industry, to identify any differences in the behaviour of filler coke and the coke from the coal-tar binder pitch, and to study the effect of pitch quality, especially the type and proportion of quinoline insolubles (QI) and the sodium content, on those processes which contribute to excess anode consumption. [Continues.]

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European Coal and Steel Community.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

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© Khadam Hussain

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Publication date

1994

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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