New approaches to model electric demand in aluminium smelter industry

Author

Molina, A. ; Gabaldon, A. ; Faura, F. ; Fuentes, J.A.

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1426

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses a nonlinear model developed to obtain electrical demand behaviors in a typical aluminium smelter plant. The validation of this model is based on real data measurement for five years of plant activity. The dynamic of the power demand, due to variations of cell parameters, electrical or production, has also been considered in this paper. In this way, a sensitivity analysis of the consumption response face to three main parameters has been performed through several simulations, in order to evaluate the suitability of the electrical demand management in this kind of industrial customer.

Keywords

demand side management; electrolysis; melting; metallurgical industries; sensitivity analysis; aluminium smelter industry; aluminium smelter plant; cell parameters variation; consumption response; electric demand modelling; electrical demand behavior; electrical demand management; electrical parameters variation; electrolytic process; nonlinear model; power demand dynamic; production parameters variation; real data measurement; sensitivity analysis; Aluminum; Metals industry; Smelting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2001. Thirty-Sixth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL, USA

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7114-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2001.955721

Filename

955721