Managing Wastes from Aluminum Smelter Plants (Woodhead Publishing India in Materials)

Managing Wastes from Aluminum Smelter Plants discusses major environmental polluting waste material from aluminium industries and particularly, stresses upon decontaminating spent pot liner.

The book incorporates author's direct experience in handling this toxic waste and discuses his world patents and semicommercial plant operation in decontaminating spent pot liner and recovering its carbon value. Demand for aluminium metal in domestic as well as in industrial sector has gone up leaps and bounds in last four decades, so is the generation of wastes by these aluminium plants. It depicts all the work done in last few decades to develop a process for safe disposal of these toxic wastes, and after analyzing these results suggests a method for value addition to these toxic wastes in order to make the decontamination process economically viable.