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July/August 2011
Welcome to the July/August issue of AIT, which this month features an award-winning paper. Sintef's Anne Kvithyld won the Vittorio de Nora Prize Lecture at this year's TMS event in San Diego for her presentation on Recycling of Contaminated Aluminium Scrap. An abridged version is published in AIT.
Elsewhere the Casthouse feature includes papers from Rio Tinto Alcan, MQP and Precimeter, while the Secondary feature also includes a paper from Gunter Kirchner, Secretary General of the Organisation of the European Recycling Industry.
Other features include an extensive overview of the Icelandic aluminium industry, a report from the 5th Electrodes Conference held in Iceland recently and a focus on the expanding Siberian aluminium market.
Front cover courtesy of R&D Carbon.
May/June 2011
AIT May/June 2011 features the usual mix of features, updates from around the globe, industry news and conference reports.
The Furnaces feature includes articles from Oman's Sohar Aluminium discussing its anode baking furnace operation, Otto Junker discussing its mathmatical model for energy savings in coil annealing furnaces and Hertwich talking about the key to optimal design of a continuous homeginising plant.
The Extrusion feature includes an article titled 'Etching effects and the formation of streaking defects on Al extrusions' from Hanliang Zhu of the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation as well as articles from Danieli Breda and Sapa.
A paper from SINTEF discusses aluminium's role in the harrowing events at the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 while the magazine also features a TMS 2011 conference report.
All this plus the usual industry news and updates. Front cover courtesy of Dubal.
March/April 2011
The March/April 2011 issue of AIT features articles on Primary and Quality, Testing & Analysis. The Primary articles include the winner of the Best Paper Light metals Division from TMS 2010. Author Bodil Monsen was presented with the award for her paper about charcoals in anodes at the recent TMS 2011 event in San Diego.
Other Primary articles include Rio Tinto Alcan's investigation into A Green Way to Deal with Spent Potlining, while Harald Oye of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology provides an article on Power Failure, Restart and Repair.
A Testing article is provided by Nokra on A Laser triangulation system for Measuring Slab Ingots, while two recycling articles are provided: one from UK group Innoval and the other from the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro).
Front cover image courtesy of www.hydro.com