Sustainable Mining and Metallurgy

This paper briefly introduced the development status of increasing anode height, and compared the electrolytic cells of the heights of 650mm and 710mm in terms of increased power consumption by increasing voltage drop, anode conduction velocity, electrolytic cell stability, etc. It can be known that after the anode height is increased, the increase of voltage drop will lead to the increase of power consumption, the anode current distribution tendency of the two type electrolytic cells is uniform, and the conduction velocity has no obvious difference; the stability of the cell with 710mm high anode is better than that with 650mm high anode. The increase of anode height reduces material consumption, electricity, direct labour and transportaiton costs, which can generate an annual revenue of about 18.65 million yuan and can achieve good environmental effect.