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Pechiney, MONSOON
Aluminium use cases: Rio Tinto & AP
Rio Tinto, a worldwide mining and metals company: • 4 product groups: Aluminium, Copper & Diamonds, Energy & Minerals, Iron Ore • We operate in more than 35 countries and employ 47,000 people.
Europe
North Asia America Africa
South America Australasia
Turin – September 20th, 2019 2 Aluminium use cases: Rio Tinto & AP
Bauxite Alumina Aluminium 3 steps from the mine to the metal: • bauxite: 4 bauxite mines • alumina: 3 alumina plants • aluminium: 19 smelters in 6 countries
• The Aluminium Dunkerque plant (North of France) is an aluminium smelter of 250 ktpy aluminium capacity [the highest-producing primary aluminium plant in the EU-28].
Turin – September 20th, 2019 3 Liberty Aluminium Dunkerque
Continuous process High energy consumption High data intensive process Green house gazes emissions
Turin – September 20th, 2019 Aluminium production process
• MONSOON contribution: – Carbon area: • Predictive Maintenance • Anode quality prediction – Electrolysis area: • Bath and metal height prediction Electrolysis pot (with courtesy of AP) • Thermal balance prediction Si possible avec anodes
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Turin – September 20th, 2019 5 Focus on Anode Quality predictive function
• predict non conformant production and trigger relevant actions to correct the problem (optimization)
Anode non-quality can lead to non-homogeneous and reactive anodes Reduced lifecycle on pots (more frequent anode change) Incidents on pots
CO2 over emissions due to the anode overconsumption
Turin – September 20th, 2019 6 Anode Quality
To provide a support to paste plant workers to improve anode density = quality
With a predictive function which:
• Detects on real time the periods (30 minutes) of improvable quality = classification
• Identifies the main variables that caused the lower quality period
• Gives recommendations to optimize the process to improve anode quality = optimization
Turin – September 20th, 2019
program innovation and research 2020 Horizon Union’s European
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