2001 TMS Annual Meeting: Exhibitor

VAW Aluminum Technologie GmbH (VAW-ATG), a subsidiary of VAW Aluminum AG, is specialized in tailor-made modernization projects for aluminum smelters. The core competencies of VAW-ATG comprise process modeling, process control and data acquisition/data processing, aluminum and carbon technology, casthouse technology and technical engineering.

The enhanced version of the proprietary VAW process control system ELAS will be presented, together with the “intelligent” crust breaker/feeder development. Significant improvements in the ELAS control algorithm together with the powerful breaker/feeder system are a step forward to a Zero-Anode-Effect operation of reduction cells. The window-oriented graphical user interface of the ELAS pot control system is an outstanding instrument for the retrieval of operational data and indepth analysis of exception states of reduction cells.