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July/August 2011

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.

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UPDATES

11 RUSSIA – Producers return to primary methods
14 USA – Aerospace opportunities for Al
16 ALFED – Industry issues higlighted at Parliamentary lunch

CASTHOUSE

17 XC Filter and Optifiler: Two three-stage filtration systems compared
19 Process simulation top help design a billet casthouse
24 Automatic control of molten metal flow for  improved DC casting

SECONDARY

26 The recycling of contaminated aluminium scrap
30 The future of recycling in Europe

OTHERS

33 Icelandic conference provides plenty of technical presentations
36 The aluminium industry of Iceland
40 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
43 Eastern Siberia - the bridge between East and West

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