At the end of the conference, eleven 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.
Section | Paper | Company | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite | BX05 - Thermal Denaturing and Study of Bauxite Organics | Rio Tinto Aluminium Pacific Operations | John Clark, Sharon Smith, Silmarilly Bahfenne and Jonathan Thabano |
| Alumina | AA12 - Crystallization and Separation of Potassium-Containing Salts in Sodium Aluminate Solution | Northeastern University - School of Metallurgy, Shenyang, China | Jilong Liu, Xiaolin Pan and Haiyan Yu |
| Alumina | AA20 - Washer Overflow Liquor Chemistry Prediction by Using Mud Level Instrumentation | Ma’aden Bauxite and Alumina, Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia | Rodrigo Neves, Diego Silva, Mohammed Miharaj, Sourav Biswas, Abdullah Al-Otaibi and Akram Khan |
| Alumina | AA22 - Improving the Alkali Recovery Efficiency of Red Mud Sedimentation System | Shenyang Aluminum and Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute (SAMI), Shenyang, China | Deming Yin, Yuguo Chen and Zhiguo Li |
| Bauxite Residue | BR01 - Bauxite Residue CO2 Mineral Sequestration Assessment | Rinalco, Wassenaar, Netherlands, Independent Consultant Bunbury, Western Australia and International Aluminium Institute, London, United Kingdom | Ab Rijkeboer, Carl Firman, David Cochrane and Ken Evans |
| Electrodes | EL09 - An Optimized Mixing Approach for Improved Anode | Fives Solios, Givors, France and Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France | Fabien Gaudière, Christophe Bouché, Salima Belbachir and Quentin Bernabé |
| Electrodes | EL19 - Operational Excellence in Rodding Plant: A Path to Control Sodium in Anode Butts | Emirates Global Aluminium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Mohammad Al Shaibani and Zobida Husain Farzanah |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL18 - Optimizing Aluminium Reduction Cell Start-up — A Semi-Conventional Approach at Sohar Aluminium | Sohar Aluminium Company L.L.C, Sohar, Sultanate of Oman | Agnello Borim, Ciro Kato, Abdullah Al Dhahli, Swapnil Sahu and Abdullah Al Yarubi |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL29 - Application Research of Nano-Ceramic-Based Anti-Oxidation Technology for Anodes and Stubs in Aluminium Electrolysis Cells | Hunan Bable Material Technology, ChangDe, China | Boyi Wang |
| Aluminium Electrolysis | AL55 - An Equation for Bubble-Induced Voltage Drop on Slotted and Non-Slotted Anodes | CAETE Engenharia, Porto Alegre, Brazil | Vanderlei Gusberti and Dagoberto Schubert Severo |
| Casthouse Operation | CH05 - Innovative Applications and Technological Breakthroughs of 60-Tonne Double-Chamber Furnace in Aluminium Recycling Industry | Rio Tinto, Saguenay, Canada, Suzhou Longray Thermal Technology, Suzhou, Chinan and China Nonferrous Metals Processing Technology (CNPT), Luoyang, China | Gaston Riverin, David Gagnon, Denis Bouchard, Xianzhong Zhu, Guangsong Yu and Zhengying Han |