Causes and consequences of magneto-hydrodynamic instability in electrolysis processes for aluminum production
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- Postgraduate student G.V. Plekhanov Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
Abstract
Processes of aluminum electrowinning are frequently accompanied by magnetic and hydrodynamic instability. This phenomena leads to deterioration of the process characteristics and has to be compensated by a corresponding control system. The paper gives a summary of data processing on operation of a subsystem designed to detect and compensate metal agitation and describes a trend in software for automatic process control systems to compensate magnetic and hydrodynamic instability.