1. 1 Aircraft Aluminum. Conclusion
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The first production process of aluminum starts within mining for aluminum rich materials such as bauxite.
Aircraft Aluminum.
Aluminum is used for all different products within aviation. It can be used for large panels and structural areas , as well as small production pieces such as rivets. However aluminum was not produced purely to be used within aviation.
Conclusion
During this process tools that had been previously engineered would have played a big part…
for exmaple step 1. Would have used diggers and even hand tools such as chissels which were never designed for the purposes of mining this speciic rock.
Step 5. cryolite which is a key part to the aluminium process is actually a main product within producing pesticides so to conldude most the materials and tools within the aluminium process were never designed with the intention of creating the final prodcut within this example. 2
Primary aluminum is then made which can be cast and shaped into a more specific product in this case aluminum sheets to then be used as structural panels.
This process would require machinery that has been previously engineered and designed for another job. Explosives also would have been used which were designed for an original purpose different to mining. 6 4
Bauxite would have then been sent to a mill to be crushed. It is then placed in specialist containers and heated with steam. These containers would have been specially designed for this process but not with the final product in mind
At an aluminum smelter. ( Another product that would have contained multiple design stages and machinery).Alumina is then poured into specialist reduction cells along with other materials such as cryolite. This produces a liquid aluminum settling. 5