Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome by Prof. Markus Reuter

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    • Meet the teachers

    • Expected starting competences

    • Learning objectives

    • What do you want to learn?

    • Have a look at what other students want to learn

    • Present yourself to your classmates

    • Have a look at your classmates

    • Become familiar with the learning platform

    • Good practices to use this course
  • 2

    Aluminium sources and production

    • Global aluminium flow

    • Exercise

    • Primary source of aluminium

    • Aluminium production from primary sources (with exercise)

    • Secondary sources of aluminium

    • Exercise

    • Aluminium production from secondary sources (with exercise)

    • Exercise: Hall-Héroult process

    • The industrial aluminium recycling process (with exercise)

    • Pre-treatment

    • Melting furnaces and additions

    • Exercise - Processing of salt slag

    • Solution - Processing of salt slag
  • 3

    Simulating an aluminium recycling process using HSC

    • HSC Sim Process Simulator

    • Basic functions of HSC Sim to draw a flowsheet

    • Running a simulation in HSC Sim
  • 4

    Simulation-based indicators for the resource efficiency and environmental impacts evaluation

    • Introduction

    • Metal recovery and losses (with exercise)

    • How different aluminium scrap types affect the recycling recovery

    • Residues and emissions (with exercise)

    • Resource consumption, exergy dissipation and exergy cost

    • Environmental impacts – Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  • 5

    Conclusion

    • What did you learn?

    • How can we improve this course?

    • Read what others want to improve on this course

    • Further readings
  • 6

    References

    • References
  • 7

    Evaluate this course

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Evaluate this course

Instructor(s)

Professor

Markus Reuter

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Markus Reuter, SMS group GmbH, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. Markus Reuter is working in Germany at SMS group GmbH Technology in Düsseldorf and he is closely linked to the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossenorf.

Post-doc

Alejandro Abadías Llamas

Alejandro Abadias Llamas is a research associate at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. His research focuses on the development of resource efficiency and environmental impact evaluations of metallurgical and Circular Economy systems using process simulation tools.

Project Manager

Tina Pereira

Tina Pereira is a project manager at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. She holds a Masters degree in Geoecology which is an integrated approach to environmental science and targets environmental issues. The term "Geoecology" signals an interdisciplinary approach and coincides with "Earth System Science". It aim at a deeper and complex understanding of environmental and planetary functions and processes, particularly related to finding solutions for anthropogenically-induced challenges and therefore, links to the topic of Circular Economy.