Including bibliography and index.

Preface -- Glossary -- The properties of refractory and heat insulation materials -- Refractories and carbon cathode materials for aluminum reduction cells -- Refractories and heat insulation materials for the cast house -- Refractories for the anode baking furnaces.

This book details the rigorous requirements for refractories designed for aluminium metallurgical processes: reduction, cast house, and anode production. The author describes requirements specific to the properties and structure of refractory materials that differentiate it from the refractories for ferrous metallurgy, among others. A comparison is drawn between the properties and structure of refractories and carbon cathode materials from different points of view: from the perspective of physical chemistry and chemical interactions during the metallurgical process and from the aspect of designing reduction pots and furnaces to accommodate the lifetime of metallurgical aggregates that are a part of aluminum refractory processes.