Alba - Bahrain
In 2003, Alba awarded several contracts to Fives as part of its line 5 expansion project:
Line 5: Scope of supply
- One Green Anode Plant implemented for the first time the Rhodax® process for dry material preparation and including a Carbon Butts Processing Unit
- Two Gas Treatment Centers fitted with Yprios, a boosted suction system dedicated to reduce potroom emissions during pots maintenance
- One Fume Treatment Center on anode baking furnaces
- The Casthouse no. 3 integration including six melting furnaces and three holding Furnaces, as well as two furnaces for casthouse 2 extension
- Ten ECL™ Pot Tending Machines to perform all tasks on pots
- One Anode Rodding Shop to separate the anode stems, the carbon blocks, the cast iron and electrolysis bath, and to assemble new anodes
- Two Anode Beam Raising Frames
- The ECL™ Crust Breaking and Alumina Feeding Devices, the ECL™ Anode Connection Assemblies
Fives had already supplied several installations
Fives has been being a major supplier of Alba since the origin of the smelter and has already supplied many installations for the successive lines construction:
- Two Green Anodes Plants
- One Bath Processing Unit
- Nine ECL™ Pot Tending Machines
- The ECL™ Crust breakers and Alumina Feeding Devices, the ECL™ Anode Connection Assembly, ECLTM Anode Beam Lifting Mechanisms
- Two Anode Beam Raising Frames
- Two Fume Treatment Centers
- The Casthouse furnaces no 1 and 2