Dubai: Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) — the state-owned enterprise that owns and operates the world's largest modern smelter with a captive power station — will promote its latest technological achievements at the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition (TMS 2010).
To be held at the Washington State Convention Centre in Seattle, US, from today to February 19, the focus of TMS 2010 is to update metallurgists, materials scientists and engineers with the latest scientific and technical developments.
The annual meeting is widely regarded as a vital networking experience for materials professionals.
"In our estimation, TMS 2010 offers a credible forum for sharing technology-related information with a broad audience representing diverse stakeholder groups. Accordingly, we have chosen to divulge the details of two major technological milestones achieved by Dubal at TMS 2010," Abdullah Kalban, president and CEO of Dubal, said in a statement.
Presentation
Kalban said yesterday that Ali H. A. M. Al Zarouni, vice-president of smelting operations will present two papers at TMS 2010.
The first paper titled "DX pot technology powers green-field expansion" focuses on Dubal's in-house developed, proprietary DX Reduction Cell Technology that has the proven capacity to operate at higher amperages. Already operating at industrial scale at Dubal's Jebel Ali smelter, DX Technology cells have also been specified for and installed at the new Emirates Aluminium green-field smelter, where commissioning of Phase 1 began in December.
The second paper titled, "Cell pre-heat on full line current at Dubal" presents an innovative process of starting a reduction cell for aluminium production.
It has been tried, tested and adopted as a standard practice at Dubal, the company said in a statement. The method offers techno-economic benefits of higher productivity at lower cost and lower energy consumption.
Waste generation is practically nil and the process is environmentally friendly.
