Managing Wastes from Aluminium Smelter Plants

Managing wastes from aluminum smelter plants discusses major environmental polluting waste material from aluminum industries and, particularly, stresses upon decontaminating spent pot liner. The book incorporates authors' direct experience in handling this toxic waste and discusses his world patents and semi-commercial plant operation in decontaminating spent pot liner and recovering its carbon value. Demand for aluminum metal in domestic as well as in industrial sector has gone up leaps and bounds in last four decades, so is the generation of wastes by these aluminum plants. This book depicts all the work done in last few decades to develop a process for safe disposal of these toxic wastes, and after analyzing these results suggests a method for value addition to these toxic wastes in order to make the decontamination process economically viable.

Introduction; Wastes generated by aluminum smelter plants; Treatment of the wastes and quality of byproducts; Utilization of wastes (byproducts); Techno-economic feasibility of some selected processes.