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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1997
Jainagesh A Sekhar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Jenq Liu, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jean-Jacques Duruz, Geneva, CH;
Moltech Invent S.A., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A carbon body, in particular a pre-baked anode of an electrolytic cell for the production of aluminium by the electrolysis of alumina in a molten fluoride electrolyte is treated over its surfaces to improve the resistance thereof to deterioration during operation of the cell by air and oxidizing gases released at the anode, by treating the body with a treating liquid comprising a precipitable boron-containing compound and an additive, said additive being present in an amount so that substantially no separate phase from said the precipitate of said boron-containing compound is formed upon curing. Suitable boron oxide additives include colloidal alumina, silica, yttria, ceria, thoria, zirconia, magnesia, lithia, monoaluminium phosphate, cerium acetate and mixtures thereof. The same treatment can also be applied to a carbon mass forming a Soderberg anode and to cell sidewalls.