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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
20 Years of LiMCA Utilization in the Aluminum Industry: A Review of the Technology Development and Applications
Authors : Thomas L. Buijs, Daniel Gagnon, Claude Dupuis
Published in: Light Metals 2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Since its introduction to the aluminum industry at the TMS Conference in 1994, the LiMCA technology has been successfully used by most aluminum producers worldwide for the measurement of inclusions in molten aluminum. The versatility of the LiMCA II instrument has been demonstrated by its ability to be used at various positions in the casting process. It has been very successful from a process understanding, optimization and control point of view. In 2004, a fixed implementation, the LiMCA CM, best suited for process control applications was introduced to the industry.This paper reviews the development of the LiMCA technology and its successful application for process understanding and optimization through examples of applications presented by numerous contributors at the TMS conference over the past 20 years. The criteria for future generations of LiMCA instruments will be discussed.