Modelling of Carbon Binder Obtaining in Flow Reactor

Abstract

Throughout the years, the industrial production of aluminum has not stopped growing due to the high increase in demand that adds even more uses than it originally already enjoyed. The sources from which it is extracted from nature seem inexhaustible, due to this, the numerous investigations that have been done in this field, rather than increasing its production, are focused on carrying it out in a cleaner, more efficient and sustainable way since it causes high contamination in its manufacturing process, especially by substances that are highly dangerous such as benzo[a]pyrene that is generated from the use of carbon anodes and more specifically in the binders used to manufacture these anodes. Among the proposals to minimize the emission of pollutants is to search for new materials that replace the polluting raw materials, being made from recycled materials, biomaterials or heavy oil fractions. These types of materials have lately been studied in various research centers, however in most of the works these are carried out by means of an experimental laboratory methodology without the use of technology or a computerized system that allows variations to be obtained to obtain more results. fast and with a high proximity value. Technological advance in computers together with the development of programs, and current computer science together with fundamental mathematics and its applications, are very intense fields but with great importance. The different math programs that interact with the computer in its different applications are very broad, especially for solving very complicated numerical problems whose manual algebraic resolution would have been practically impossible to do a few years ago. This is why this work will be focused on obtaining a simulation of the most representative properties of the synthesis process, with the aim of contributing to the growth of this emerging field with a view to a larger scale of production of binders that serve for the production of carbon anodes in the aluminum manufacturing process.