At the end of the conference, nine Best Paper Awards were announced with the aim of recognizing outstanding papers in each stream of our technical program. Among the criteria taken into consideration for the selection were the degree of novelty and innovation, the applicability in the industry, the quality of writing and the quality of technical content or scientific methodology.
For the first time, one “Special Mention” paper was also selected for each of the subjects : Bauxite, Alumina, Bauxite Residue, Electrodes, Aluminium Electrolysis, and Casthouse Operation. These papers were all very close to being selected as best papers.
Section | Paper | Company | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEST PAPERS: | |||
| Bauxite | BX03 - Enhancing Efficiency in Mining Operations through Closed-loop Real-time Ore Control System (CROCS) | Rio Tinto | Fei Fei Wang, Emet Arya and Ke Shi |
| Alumina | AA17 - Agglomeration Process Optimization | Hydro Bauxite & Alumina, Atomiton | Jefferson Klister, Cleto Azevedo, Taynara Valentim, Pedro Costa, Alok Batra, Bhanu Prakash and Narayana Khadri |
| Alumina | AA19 - Optimization of Aluminum Hydroxide Seeded Crystallization Using Predictive Model | RUSAL Engineering and Technology Center, Saint-Petersburg Mining University | Vladimir Golubev, Tatyana Litvinova and Ilya Blednykh |
| Bauxite Residue | BR07 - Technical and Engineering Insights into Green Iron Production from Bauxite Residue: A Microwave Plant Assembly Process | Norsk Hydro Alunorte, New Wave | Marcelo Montini, Darllan Rosario Pinheiro, Raphael Vieira da Costa, Luis Rodolfo Mariani Bittencourt, Lucas Arantes Araújo and Amaury Jose Leone Negrao |
| Electrodes | EL01 – A case study for emissions free CPC production | Rain Carbon | Les Charles Edwards, Main Hunt and Matthew Childers |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL03 - Ma’aden Reduction Potlines Partial Failure Incident and Recovery | Ma'aden Aluminium Company | Subah Al-Shammari, Kishor Pant, Abdulrahman H. Al-Shammari, Brent M. Pekoba and Mohammed Al Hunaini |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL18 - Decoding Alumina Dissolution by Navigating the Dynamic Interplay of Bath Composition | Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Rio Tinto | Jonathan Alarie, Martin Truchon, László Kiss, Lukas Dion, Sébastien Guérard and Jean-François Bilodeau |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL39 - Reduction of Net Carbon Consumption - Different Avenues Tested | Aluminium Dunkerque | Sylvain Delenclos, Stephane Mermet-Guyenet, Johan Mizzi, Guillaume Branly, Olivier Forato |
| Casthouse Operation | CH16 - Batscan: the Coming of Age of a New Tool for Inclusion Detection in Liquid Aluminium | Constellium, STAS | Jean-Louis Achard, Pierre Le Brun, Marc Bertherat, Pierre-Yves Menet, Nicolas Bauret and Vincent Milani |
| SPECIAL MENTION PAPERS: | |||
| Bauxite | BX02 - Hyperspectral Imaging, Data Processing and Prediction of Bauxite Samples from Paragominas, Brazil | Hydro Bauxite & Alumina | Acácio Nunes de Pina Neto, Éricka Nascimento Brito, Gustavo Lopes Loureiro, Ricardo Radtke, Bruno Lima Gomes and Silvia Leda Torres de Farias |
| Alumina | AA16 - Study of Vanadium Removal from Caustic Solutions | Zhengzhou Non-ferrous Metals Research Institute of CHALCO | Lu Siming, Ma Danyang, Yu Qing, Qi Lijuan, Yang Huibin, Zhang Jianqiang, Li Xueyuan, Kang Shaojie, Li Chengyu and Xie Gengbiao |
| Bauxite Residue | BR04 - Applying CFD Modelling and FEA to Enhance Bauxite Residue Slurry Flow through Distribution Rings in Filter Presses | Cural Laboratory, Rio Tinto | Thomas Grillot, Simon Gravel and Nicolas-Alexandre Bouchard |
| Electrodes | EL04 - A Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Pre-baked Carbon Anode Production; A Case Study in Quebec | REGAL | Bernard Osei, Simon Laliberté-Riverin and Houshang Alamdari |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL52 - CFD Modelling of Potroom Ventilation | CAETE Engenharia, CBA, Genisim | Vanderlei Gusberti, Dagoberto Severo, Elkjaer Ferreira Braz and Marc Dupuis |
| Casthouse Operation | CH12 - Real-time Monitoring of Legionella in Casthouse Water Cooling Systems | Rio Tinto | Geneviève Doyer and Marie-Christine Simard |