What's New at Advanced Dynamics? June 2008

ADCL has recently been awarded a contract with a mid-western carbon plant to provide a strongback system loading multiple electrodes up to 8,000 lbs. into the furnace with a total capacity of 45,000 lbs.

July 2008

We are pleased to announce that Emirates Aluminium (EMAL), currently constructing what will become the world’s largest, single-site aluminium smelter facility, has awarded its Anode Handling and Cleaning System to Advanced Dynamics.

This completely automated system will transport green and baked carbon anode blocks from the paste plant to Anode storage facility, then to the baking furnaces, back through the storage (through our state of the art anode cleaning machines) and finally to the rodding shop.  Control system scope includes Level 0 – motor control, level 1 and level 2 Scada.  All of the above will work together on state of the art networks as per the EMAL project standards.  In addition, we will also be supplying the Anode Management System which will:

  1. manage and prioritize all anode movement through the anode storage facility including interface with the facilities’ automated storage and anode stacking cranes (ASC’s)
  2. manage controls interface including pit load and unload campaigns with the two bake furnaces tending assemblies (FTA’s)
  3. manage interface with the paste plant and the rodding shop
  4. receive anodes from the paste plant
  5. send anodes to the rodding shop
EMAL is a joint venture (JV) between Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (DUBAL) and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala) and was established in February 2007 to construct the world’s largest, single site aluminium production facility at Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi, UAE.  The project will be built in two phases and will utilise Emirati-developed technology. At the end of phase one in 2010, the production facility will produce 700,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum and 1.4 million tonnes annually at the end of phase.

Pulp and Paper:

ADCL has been awarded a contract to modernize a roll handling operation for a mid western paper company. Our new roll separation technology will be retrofitted into their existing line to handle paper rollus up to 74" in diameter.