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Successful Start-Up of the Fume Treatment Centre at Boyne Smelter Carbon Bake Furnace #4

2016; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-65136-1_224

2367-1181

Jonathan Higley, Glenn Cordon, Peter Klut, Rick Oliana, Erik Dupon, Travis Turco, Edo Engel,

At Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) in Queensland Australia, a new carbon bake furnace was built as part of a AUD $337 million development program to replace two existing carbon bake furnaces. The carbon plant was to have a capacity of 200,000 tpy of anodes. It consisted of a Rio Tinto Alcan AP technology furnace, four (4) state of the art fire groups using natural gas, two furnace tending cranes, an anode handling system and a Fume Treatment Centre (FTC). The plant was commissioned in January 2012 and reached full capacity by April 2012. The FTC design incorporated several new features such as newly designed flow distribution system in the baghouse, microfiber filterbags which utilize lime pre-coat for improved filtration and a direct diesel driven emergency draft fan. Similar with the majority of startups there were some challenges to overcome, but the carbon bake furnace and FTC are both fully operational and have achieved operational and process performance guarantees.