摘要 |
Carbon lining removed after long, chemical-accumulating use in an aluminum reduction cell is crushed and treated with dry steam at a temperature insufficient to destroy the carbon, so that unwanted carbides and nitrides are eliminated and the lining material is conditioned for recovery of useful values, advantageously by classification thereafter into a coarse fraction providing carbon in reusable form and a fine fraction in which chemical material is reclaimed, such as alumina and fluorides suitable for use in the fused bath of a reduction cell.
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