| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Aluminum Reduction Technology
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| Presentation Title |
A New Concept for Measuring Heat Fluxes from Electrolysis Cells |
| Author(s) |
Eirik Manger |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Eirik Manger |
| Abstract Scope |
This work introduces a new concept to simplify heat flux measurements from hot surfaces, relevant for e.g. aluminium pots. Realizing that the wall material stores information on the flux, the idea is to use transient thermal data in combination with a localized air-jet that offsets the temperature on the surface from which the heat flux should be measured. The temperature response in combination with the energy transport (flow amount and temperature) will form a digital signature depending on the material and the original/instant heat flux from the surface. This information can then be utilized to obtain the heat flux out from the surface.
The concept was verified via simulations, and a first prototype was built to evaluate the method physically. Analyses so far show significantly shorter time to perform such measurements, as well as better accuracy. Moreover, data can be pushed directly to the cloud improving data handling further. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Light Metals |
| Keywords |
Aluminum, Modeling and Simulation, Other |