Sustainable Mining and Metallurgy

Rolling aluminum has many adverse effects on production including reducing the stability of the electrolytic cell, causing current drain which affects energy consumption indicators, and even cell shutdowns and blackouts in severe cases. This article introduced in detail the performance of aluminum electrolytic cells when aluminum rolling occurs, as well as the root causes and precursory characteristics of aluminum rolling. A specific analysis was carried out on the five common reasons that may cause aluminum rolling during the electrolytic production process, preventive measures targeted at each cases were put forward accordingly and recommendations for handling aluminum rolling were finally given to provide reference to prevent aluminum rolling and handle the cell with aluminum rolling occurrence during aluminum electrolysis.