EP0084142B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour l'alimentation en courant électrique de cuves pour la production électrolytique de métaux, spécialement d'aluminium - Google Patents
Procédé et dispositif pour l'alimentation en courant électrique de cuves pour la production électrolytique de métaux, spécialement d'aluminium Download PDFInfo
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- the present invention relates to a method for the electric current supply to pots for the electrolytic production of metals, in particular for the production of aluminium, said pots being connected in series and arranged transversally or longitudinally.
- aluminium is commercially produced in pots, electrically connected in series, by electrolytic reduction of alumina dissolved in molten cryolite, each of said pots essentially consisting of a rectangular crucible having the cathode (formed by joined carbon blocks which embody iron cathode bars) on the bottom, while the anodes (consisting of separate carbon blocks connected by iron yokes to aluminium anode rods) hang vertically over each pot and are immerged in the electrolytic molten bath of cryolite-alumina.
- the aluminium produced by electrolysis deposits onto the cathode, under said molten bath.
- the electrical connection in series is accomplished by connecting, by means of aluminium conductor bars, the cathode outputs of an upstream pot with the anode bus bar of the adjoining downstream pot, said upstream and downstream positions being referred-as is usually conventional-to the prevailing current direction in the pot-line.
- the pots of the pot-line are arranged, from a geometrical point of view, on one or more parallel rows, and are oriented in each of such rows in a so-called end-to-end relationship, or in a so-called side-by-side relationship, depending on whether the long side of said pots is arranged parallelly or perpendicularly to the predominant direction of the current in the series.
- Each of the two arrangements exhibits own typical known advantages and drawbacks of various kind, but for both said arrangements the electric current carried by whole conductor system (i.e. the anodes, the molten electrolyte and metal, the cathodes and the outer bus bar system) generates magnetic fields of comparatively high intensity, which cause in the electrolysis bath as well as in the molten metal, due to the interaction with the current flowing through said fluids, forces of electromagnetic nature which are generally dis- symetrically distributed.
- whole conductor system i.e. the anodes, the molten electrolyte and metal, the cathodes and the outer bus bar system
- Said magnetic fields and consequent forces (which are the more intense, the higher is the current intensity involved, being also known that at present the tendency of the technique is to construct pots operating at 150-200 kA and over) cause serious disturbances to the behaviour of the pots, with related detrimental effects on the technical-economical results of the electrolysis process.
- DE-B-1.049.108 teaches, in turn, a method relating to electrolysis pots disposed end to end, which method is characterized in that the main two conductors carrying the current from pot to pot through the whole series (said current having opposite direction for two adjacent rows) are as far as possible parallely positioned (side by side) on the median line of said two rows, as well as parallely are positioned the conductors connecting-perpendicularly to the general direction of the current in the series-said main two conductors to the single pots, further being symmetrically positioned the conductors which feed the current in and out of the single pots.
- the object of this invention is to provide an improved method for the electric current supply to pots for the electrolytic production of metals, in particular aluminium, capable of minimizing the detrimental effects of the magnetic forces acting on the electrolysis pots, said pots being electrically connected in series, and arranged side-by-side or end-to-end in one row or more rows.
- the double symmetrical current paths so provided permit to obtain a high compensation and the total symmetrization (with respect to both median vertical planes of each pot) of the magnetic field components and, by consequence, a total symmetrization of the magnetic forces induced by the interaction of said magnetic field with the pot current.
- FIG. 1 schematically show some arrangements of the conductors intended for carrying the current in plants for the electrolytic production of metals, in particular aluminium, figures 1 to 3 and 12 to 14 referring to conventional arrangements, while figures 4 to 11 and 15 to 18 refer to arrangements according to the present invention. More particularly, with reference to the side-by-side pots:
- the magnetic forces F which influence the behaviour of an electrolytic pot are generated by the interaction of the magnetic induction fields created by the currents flowing through the outer and inner conductors (in respect of the pot), with the current density field7 existing inside the molten areas of the pot (more specifically: bath and metal) according to the vectorial relationship wherein both F and J and B are intended in general to be functions of the point of observation, being such point referred-in the present case-to an orthogonal reference system having the center coinciding with the center of the cathode plane of the pot (metal bottom), the x axis directed as the general flow of the current in the potline, the y axis arranged at 90° counterclockwise and the z axis directed upwards.
- a possible dissymmetry in the magnetic force field F in said cavity is therefore substantially ascribable to the field B
- Such dissymmetry is a consequence, in turn, of the dissymmetry of the outer conductor bus bar system of. the pot, since the inner conductors (from the anode rod system to the cathode block) are usually symmetrically arranged.
- the second type of dissymmetry is conversely due to the non- symmetrical arrangement of the conductor bus bars and of the currents with respect to the plane yz, i.e. to the median vertical plane of the single pot perpendicular to the direction of the current in the row ("longitudinal plane” for transversally arranged pots and “transversal plane” for longitudinally arranged pots), and causes an unbalance of field B between the upstream and the downstream halves of the pot.
- the total feeding current I which, coming from the rectifier station, supplies the first pot in the series is distributed (at least from a certain point onward) in four equal portions in two parallel pairs of side-by-side conductors of equal length and cross-section, said pairs being lined, up to the intersection points with the longitudinal median plane of the abovesaid first pot, with the aforecited pairs of conductors e 1 , f 1 ; e 2 , f 2 , so that a "continuous" is practically obtained from the rectifier station to the longitudinal median plane of the last pot in the series, such "continuous" being represented by two pairs of side-by-side conductors, each pair carrying, in the x direction, a current equal to 1/2.
- the four reverse bus bars are divided into two pairs m 1 , n l ; m 2 , n 2 (fig. 11) of equal length and cross-section, arranged all through the pot- line and up to the rectifier station in proximity of and parallely to the two cited pairs representing the "continuous" mentioned in point f) above, each of said pairs of reverse bus bars carrying a current equal to I/2 having a direction opposite to the general flow direction of the current in the potline, wherefore a complete compensation between the current feeding the series and the reverse current is provided in the four pairs of said conductor bus bars; as a consequence thereof, the magnetic field generated by them is fully annulled and, therefore, any cause of dissymmetry due to the currents with respect to the longitudinal vertical planes of the pots is removed.
- said two points C, D are assembled in a position corresponding to the vertical projection of the pot centre; in the "corridor arrangement" of figures 17 and 18, the two points are separated, being respectively outside (figure 17) or at (figure 18) the vertical projections of abovesaid points A, B.
- the reverse current is carried by two conductors m, n (fig. 18) of equal length and cross-section, arranged along the all pot-line and up to the rectifier station close and parallely to the two conductors constituting the "continuous" mentioned in point n) above, each of said reverse conductors carrying a current equal to I/2 having a direction opposite to the general direction of the current in the series, wherefore a complete compensation between feeding current and reverse current is obtained in the two pairs of abovesaid conductors; as a consequence thereof, the magnetic field generated by them is completely annulled, and any cause of dissymmetry of the currents with respect to the transversal vertical planes of the pots is therefore eliminated.
- the conductors utilized for carrying the cathode current can have uniform cross-sections in the whole plant. This depends on the fact (clearly evidenced by figures 11 and 18) that from the current collecting points at the long sides of each single upstream pot up to the joins to the anode bus bar of the adjoining downstream pot, the conductors-having the same length and cross-section in the single sections-follow total paths of equal length and a constant current equal to 1/2 flows therein on each side of the row.
- the conductor arrangement adopted reduces to the essential the portions of outer conductors which are unshielded, from a magnetic point of view, by the steel shell of the pot.
- the "residual" magnetic field i.e. non identically null field
- the "residual" magnetic field is only the one generated by outer portions of cathode by the bars running along the pot long sides, by the risers, by the anode bus bar and by the conductors inside the pot; all the abovesaid conductors being symmetrically arranged with respect to both median vertical planes.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| IT19155/82A IT1200568B (it) | 1982-01-18 | 1982-01-18 | Metodo ed apparato per l'alimentazione elettrica di celle per la produzione elettrolitica di metalli,disposte per lungo |
| IT19154/82A IT1200585B (it) | 1982-01-18 | 1982-01-18 | Metodo ed apparato per l'alimentazione elettrica di celle per la produzione elettrolitica dimetalli disposte per traverso |
| IT1915482 | 1982-01-18 | ||
| IT1915582 | 1982-01-18 |
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| EP0084142A2 EP0084142A2 (fr) | 1983-07-27 |
| EP0084142A3 EP0084142A3 (en) | 1983-08-03 |
| EP0084142B1 true EP0084142B1 (fr) | 1987-06-10 |
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| FR2583069B1 (fr) * | 1985-06-05 | 1987-07-31 | Pechiney Aluminium | Dispositif de connexion entre cuves d'electrolyse a tres haute intensite, pour la production d'aluminium, comportant un circuit d'alimentation et un circuit independant de correction du champ magnetique |
| DE59607944D1 (de) * | 1996-01-26 | 2001-11-22 | Alusuisse Tech & Man Ag | Schienenanordnung für Elektrolysezellen |
| CN103114307B (zh) * | 2011-11-16 | 2015-11-04 | 沈阳铝镁设计研究院有限公司 | 铝电解槽外补偿供电整流机组铝母线布置方法及系统 |
| GB2563641A (en) * | 2017-06-22 | 2018-12-26 | Dubai Aluminium Pjsc | Electrolysis plant using the Hall-Héroult process, with vertical magnetic field compensation |
| RU2678624C1 (ru) * | 2017-12-29 | 2019-01-30 | Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "Объединенная Компания РУСАЛ Инженерно-технологический центр" | Ошиновка модульная для серий алюминиевых электролизеров |
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| DE1049108B (de) * | 1953-02-05 | 1959-01-22 | Elektrokemisk As | Anordnung von Stromschienen fuer Elektrolysezellen |
| FR1164362A (fr) * | 1957-01-05 | 1958-10-08 | Pechiney | Procédé pour supprimer les dénivellations du métal fondu et pour réduire les mouvements d'agitation du liquide dans les cellules d'électrolyse |
| FR2378107A1 (fr) * | 1977-01-19 | 1978-08-18 | Pechiney Aluminium | Procede pour ameliorer l'alimentation en courant de cuves d'electrolyse alignees en long |
| FR2423554A1 (fr) * | 1978-02-08 | 1979-11-16 | Pechiney Aluminium | Procede de reduction des perturbations magnetiques dans les series de cuves d'electrolyse a haute intensite |
| FR2425482A1 (fr) * | 1978-05-11 | 1979-12-07 | Pechiney Aluminium | Procede de compensation du champ magnetique induit par la file voisine dans les series de cuves d'electrolyse a haute intensite |
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