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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
May. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Norsk Hydro Asa, Oslo, NO;
Inventor:
Roland Scharf-Bergmann, Grevenbroich, DE;
Assignee:
NORSK HYDRO ASA, Oslo, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 21/00 (2006.01); C22B 1/00 (2006.01); C22B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 21/0092 (2013.01); C22B 1/005 (2013.01); C22B 7/003 (2013.01); C22B 21/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract
Method for producing thermally processed material (), the method comprising providing material () to be thermally processed, providing carbon-containing scrap material () from an electrolysis cell () for the production of primary aluminium (), introducing the material () to be thermally processed into a furnace (), processing the carbon-containing scrap material () to produce a scrap fuel (), and thermally processing the material () to be thermally processed in the furnace () using energy generated by burning the scrap fuel () such as to produce thermally processed material ().