Aluminum Melting and Metal Quality Processing Technology for Continuous High Quality Castings S. Kennedy Hy-Tech Furnaces, USA The aluminum industry has moved more towards complete integral melt systems as a total process in order to provide continuous quality metal for casting operations. In years past, new aluminum casting plant layouts were approached by purchasing multiple individual system requirements such as melting, degassing, filtering and metal transfer from a number of suppliers. Today, high technology equipment OEM's are offering complete turnkey systems for individually engineered casting needs. This in turn takes a burden off the foundry engineers to spend more time in careful selection of the critical casting equipment to achieve high quality aluminum parts. Eliminating metal quality issues from the equation allows for a smooth start-up transition with a reduced number of equipment suppliers. This paper will address the system concept from A to Z allowing for careful consideration for new plant casting facilities. |