| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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An Atoms to Autos Approach for Materials Innovations for Lightweighting: An LMD Symposium in Honor of Anil K. Sachdev
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| Presentation Title |
Liquid Metallurgy Processing for Reuse of Al Scrap |
| Author(s) |
Diran Apelian, Shri Shankar, Raquel Jaime |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Diran Apelian |
| Abstract Scope |
The amount of Al that is being produced from Bauxite (primary Al) has dramatically increased during the last few decades, and there is a large amount of end of life (EOL) Al that is available for reuse. It is well known that the carbon footprint as well as the reduction of energy consumed when Al scrap is reused is significant. At the ACRC we have embarked on a major effort to produce a “green” Al alloy produced 100% from Al scrap. The traditional route has been sorting of the scrap into its alloy families, blending, melt and cast specific alloy designations. Our approach has been to alleviate sorting and to directly melt the AL scrap (e.g., twitch) and applying metallurgical processing technologies. We are naming this route “liquid metallurgy processing -LMP”. The methodologies, and processing details will be reviewed, results presented and discussed. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Aluminum, Recycling and Secondary Recovery, Solidification |