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I confirm that an aluminium refinery is not something you stop lightly. I remember something about taking two weeks to restart? Maybe more. Source, had family w
by speed_spread 3y ago
I confirm that an aluminium refinery is not something you stop lightly. I remember something about taking two weeks to restart? Maybe more. Source, had family working at a large northern plant.
- Filligree 3y agoBeing able to restart it at all makes it better than a lot of industries. Many of these liquid-metal affairs depend on convection and inertia to keep the metal molten, and if it solidifies inside a pipe—well, then you don't have a pipe anymore; you have a bimetal pole. Or ceramic cladding for an iron pole, depending. Either way it's a rebuild, not a restart.
- iancmceachern 3y agoTotally, like magnetic induction pumps that pump molten iron, once the iron solidifies its a composite tube.
- Arrath 3y ago> well, then you don't have a pipe anymore; you have a bimetal pole. I love that way of describing it.