For the first time a Best Presentation Award was introduced. The award recipient was selected by vote of the participants with the aid of the Whova App:
AL44 - A Deep Learning-Based Robot for Anode Cover Thickness Measurement in Aluminum Reduction Cells - Salem Haggag, Mostafa Aboelnaga, Mohammad Rashwan, Mohammed Al Hadi, Yassin Abdelmeguid and Bilal Serieh (American University in Dubai, UAE), Mohamed Mahmoud, Halima Alhmoudi, Nadia Ahli, Aslam Khan and Praveen Gupta (Emirates Global Aluminium, UAE).
At the end of the conference fourteen papers were announced for the Best Paper Award. The awards are dedicated to recognizing outstanding papers across the entire program.
Among the criteria taken into consideration for the best paper award were the highest presentation skills, degree of novelty and innovation, the quality of writing, and the quality of technical content or scientific methodology, detailed elaboration of the idea and prospects for widening of application. In the respective subjects, the best paper awards went to:
Section | Paper | Company | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite | BX09 -Online Predictive Asset Monitoring Via Cloud Specialist System | Hydro Paragominas, Tractian Technology, Brasil | Glayson Soares Habr, Silvio Balieiro, Marco Machado, Gilmar Rios, Marcos Branco, Marcel Duarte, Debora Rocha and Leo Borba |
| Bauxite | BX16 - Tailing Dam Closure with Revegetation: Use of Green Manure for the Improvement of Technosoil Built from Bauxite Tailings | Hydro Paragominas, Brasil | Jonilton Paschoal and Vicente Souza |
| Alumina | AA04- Enhancing Solid-Liquid Separation in Alumina Refineries: a Comparative Study of Gravity Decanters and Diastar Filters | Norsk Hydro, Hydro Alunorte, Brazil, Errol Jaeger Alumina Consultant, USA, Gaudfrin, France | Caio Melo, Errol Jaeger, Adrien Dagallier and Enio Silva |
| Alumina | AA17- Successful Application and Installation of SWIRLFLOW® Mixing Technology in an Inverted Cone Precipitation Tank at the Hindalco Alumina Refinery in India | CSIRO, Australia, Hindalco, India, Metso, Germany | Bon Nguyen, Ashish Mishra, Wenge Zhang, Michael Hurley, Lachlan Graham and Jie Wu |
| Alumina | AA29 - Gallium Balance in a Greenfield Alumina Refinery | Emirates Global Aluminium, UAE | Emilio Dal Pai, Ahmad Badarani, Jӧrg Rüster, Neeraj Pugalia, Devarajan Rajamanickam, Supratim Dey and Fatema Al Mazrouei |
| Bauxite Residue | BR01 - Mineralogical and Compositional Description of Al Taweelah Alumina Refinery’s Bauxite Residue | Emirates Global Aluminium, UAE | Lucky Zaman and Markus Gräefe |
| Bauxite Residue | BR15 – The House of Bauxite | Mytilineos S.A.- Aluminium of Greece, Greece, University of Ioannina, Greece, ResouceFull, Belgium, ENALOS, Greece, KU Leuven, Belgium | Efthymios Balomenos, Panagiotis Davris, Grigoris Pachalis, Alexandros Peteinarelis, Nikolaos Patsavos, Lukas Arnout, Elise François, Thomas Lapauw, Christos Georgopoulos, Konstantinos Sakkas, Michiel Giels, Tobias Hertel and Yiannis Pontikes |
| Electrodes | CB01 - Effect of Mechanical Stress on Pitch Distribution during Anode Baking | Université Laval, Aluminium Research Centre - REGAL, Québec, Canada, Alcoa, Québec, Canada | Nnafiseh Shadvar, Guillaume Gauvin, Simon Laliberté-Riverin, Houshang Alamdari and Julien Lauzon Gauthier |
| Electrodes | CB17 - How the CPC Specification and Smelter Strategies Impact Performance and Anode Quality | Emirates Global Aluminium, UAE | Edouard Mofor, Najeeba Al Jabri and Shane Pollé |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL20 - Numerical Modelling of Voltage Drop due to Anode Bubbles | CAETE Engenharia, Brazil | Vanderlei Gusberti and Dagoberto Schubert Severo |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL24 - Experience with Homogeneous Cu Collector Bars Directly Fitted into Cathode Blocks | Hydro Aluminium, Norway | Eirik Hagen and Bjørnar Gjesdal |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL36 - Visualization of Anode Effect in High Temperature Transparent Aluminum Electrolysis Cell | Northeastern University, China | Bingliang Gao, Hongkun Niu, Cong Wang and Zhiwei Liu |
| Sustainability | ST07 - Aluminium from the Amazon: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats | Centre for International Environmental Studies, Switzerland | Simon Lobach |
| Casthouse Operation | CH01 - The Impact of Skim Dam Design on the Molten Aluminium Temperature Uniformity at Sheet Ingot Mold Periphery | Rio Tinto Aluminium, Canada | Martin Fortier |