ALUMINIUM ALLOY PLANT (CAP: 100 MT/DAY)
[EIRI/EDPR/1540] J.C.333
INTRODUCTION
Aluminum containing variable amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, Magnesium, lead bismuth, nickel, chromium, zinc ortin. A wide range of uses and properties is possible. Always may be obtained for costing or working heat treatable or non-heat treatable with a wide range of strength corrosion resistance machinability and weldability.
The Latin in name Alumen was employed by pliny. The chemical Alum had been used for car tarius but it was not until 1922 that French Hoffman concluded from experiments that the book of alum was a true and distinct Earth. Before the end of that century the name of the earth had been anglicized to Alumina.
In 1807 Sir Humphrey Davy become convinced that alumina had a metallic base. He attempted to reduce it by heating it with potash and an electrolyzing mixture Although his efforts were unsuccessful, The named the material he could not secure aluminium. In his later writing Davy changed the name to aluminium to correspond with the name of the oxide alumini. By 1945 Wholer succeeded in producing aluminium in slightly larger amounts. He reported some particles as large as bit pin heads because of the oxide film on the particles, he was unable to make them coalesce.
He hammered out two metallic globules, with a combined wt. of 32 mg. And proceeded to measure specific gravity, ductility and air stability of the metal. He also demonstrated that it melted before a blow pipe flame and he showed the chemical relation ship of aluminium to other metal and compounds. These pirotal experiments by wholor provided the first awareness of the remarkable lightness of aluminium.
Sainte-daix deville felt that aluminium should be available in bar and ingot form and started work toward this good. He received grant from the French academy for research on the production of aluminium in trigued by the potential of aluminium as a material for fabricating helmets and armor napoleon III financed Sairle claix deville to continue his experiments on a larger scale. The work was carried on at the lowel Chemical work, the process appeared practical but expensive.
The epochal discovery by charles Martin Hall is in the full tradition of Edison, Stenmetz, and the legion of other young scientific geniuses who led the world into the twentieth century and modern industrial age. Driven only by his imagination and determination, working in literally a wood shed laboratory with make shift equipment, Hall found at 22 a secret that for decades had eluded top scientists.
Hall was born to invent something. It happened to be aluminium that captured his attention. As a youth he had a certain fame in his neighborhood, based on the sounds, smalls, and occasionally even sights (a puff of smoke) from his experiments in a couple stop his parents obarlin, choio home. After bed time, instead of swash buckling tales, he read and re-read one of his preacher farther's college chemistry text, from which he first become intrigued by the scientific challenge and economic potential of improving on whohler's process.
COST ESTIMATION
Plant Capacity 100 MT/Day
Land & Building (2500 sq.mt.) US$ 3.24 Lac
Plant & Machinery US$ 3.43 Lac
Working Capital for 2 Months US$ 1.06 Cr
Total Capital Investment US$ 1.14 Cr
Rate of Return 69%
Break Even Point 25%
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
USES AND APPLICATIONS
B.I.S. SPECIFICATIONS
PROPERTIES
CAST ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
TYPES OF ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
LOW LEVEL ALLOY SYSTEMS
CLASSIFICATION OF ALUMINIUM ALLOY
ALUMINIUM ALLOY SPECIFICATION
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION LIMITS OF EXTRUSION ALLOYS ALLOY
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION UNITS OF TUBING ALLOYS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
MARKET SURVEY
INDUSTRY PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY
ANALYSIS, FORECASTING AND CONCLUSION
MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS/EXPORTERS OF ALUMINIUM ALLOY
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM
SUPPLIERS OF PLANT AND MACHINERIES
SUPPLIERS OF RAW MATERIALS
APPENDIX – A:
01. PLANT ECONOMICS
02. LAND & BUILDING
03. PLANT AND MACHINERY
04. OTHER FIXED ASSESTS
05. FIXED CAPITAL
06. RAW MATERIAL
07. SALARY AND WAGES
08. UTILITIES AND OVERHEADS
09. TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL
10. TOTAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT
11. COST OF PRODUCTION
12. TURN OVER/ANNUM
13. BREAK EVEN POINT
14. RESOURCES FOR FINANCE
15. INSTALMENT PAYABLE IN 5 YEARS
16. DEPRECIATION CHART FOR 5 YEARS
17. PROFIT ANALYSIS FOR 5 YEARS
18. PROJECTED BALANCE SHEET FOR (5 YEARS)