Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A row of
electrolytic reduction pots used in thesmelting ofaluminium .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word potline.
Examples
-
A potline is a row of electrolytic cells used in the production of aluminum.
Alcoa to restart idled Ferndale, Wenatchee operations | Puget Sound Business Journal 2011
-
A new potline -- rows of electrolytic cells used to refine aluminum from bauxite
-
About 80 jobs will be created when the potline restarts.
Alcoa to restart idled Ferndale, Wenatchee operations | Puget Sound Business Journal 2011
-
The company, as a first phase development, will build a single AP35 potline, together with associated carbon and casting facilities and an 1000 MW gas fired power station.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows graham0921 2010
-
The technique also permits accelerated start up; the potential benefit is therefore many times more when it is applied in an expansion project or in restarting a potline following a power outage.
-
Tomago Aluminium's proposed $600 million potline have also been scrapped. electricity prices are the biggest concern along with the mining tax,
-
Oman's Sohar smelter through the addition of a second potline, Mirchi said.
Aluminum Demand to Rise 5.3% a Year, Output Increase Needed, Rio Projects - Bloomberg 2010
-
The second potline at Tennessee Operations Plant South was stopped at about 11: 00 a.m. Monday.
unknown title 2009
-
March 3 - Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a subsidiary of Century Aluminum said it curtailed one potline at its Hawesville, Kentucky primary aluminium smelter, effectively cutting about
Forbes.com: News 2009
-
The aluminum plant will operate half a potline until June, said Haley Beaudry, manager of external affairs.
unknown title 2009
qroqqa commented on the word potline
This incorporates the expansion of two existing potlines — a series of electrolytic cells (known as pots) in which alumina (powdered aluminium) is reduced to high purity aluminum metal.
—itp.net, 29/07/2006
December 4, 2008