The Handbook has proven to be helpful to plant designers and operators for engineering and
production of aluminium recycling plants. The book deals with aluminium as material and its
recovery from bauxite the various process steps and procedures melting and casting plants
metal treatment facilities provisions and equipment for environmental control and workforce
safety cold and hot recycling of aluminium including scrap preparation and remelting
operation and plant management. Due to more and more stringent regulations for environmental
control and fuel efficiency as well as quality requirements sections about salt slag recycling
oxy-fuel heating and heat treatment processes are now incorporated in the new edition. The
reader is thus provided with a detailed overview of the technology of aluminium recycling.
Contents: Part I - Fundamentals 1. Introduction 2. Sources for the production of aluminium 3.
Alumina refinery 4. Aluminium reduction 5. Secondary aluminium 6. Material Basis for Recycling
Part II - Mechanical preparation 1. General 2. Material storage 3. Cutting and baling 4.
Comminution 5. Classification 6. Sorting 7. Process lines for mechanical preparation Part III -
Metallurgical processing 1. Melting process 2. Overview of melting technologies 3. Furnace
technology 4. Casting technologies 5. Metal treatment 6. Heat treatment 7. Environment control
8. Process control 9. Quality assurance 10. Safety Part IV - Plant design 1. Plant design 2.
Plant implementation 3. Detail engineering 4. Construction 5. Project management 6. Final
remarks
