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Thomas J Reed, Jr

Glenn S O'Nan

Edgar Avalos Ortiz

Carlton R Rodrigues

Jim Ramsey

A busway joint pack includes a pair of opposing phase connector plates, a first insulating sheet, a second insulating sheet, a first side panel, and a second side panel. The busway joint pack passively transfers thermal energy generated in its core to an exterior housing such that the thermal energy is dissipated or transferred to the surrounding environment, which reduces the internal temperature of the joint pack. The first and the second insulating sheets are positioned and selected with a particular thermal resistance and dimensions such that a portion of the thermal energy generated in the core of the busway joint pack is transferred from the pair of opposing phase connector plates to the external housing.

Thermally efficient busway joint pack

Alumina-containing dust is agglomerated into granules by mixing the dust with an organic binder to form a mixture; feeding the mixture into a rotating drum; adding water to the mixture while the drum is rotating; stirring the mixture with a rotor hastening agglomeration of the dust particles into granules; collecting moist granules from an open end of the drum; and drying the moist granules. Granules produced by the process are suitable feedstock material for production of aluminum by electrolysis of alumina in a cell containing a molten salt bath, anodes, and a cathode.

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Thomas J Reed, Jr