The Production, Characteristics And Use Of Aluminium And Its

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�h Aluminium is a superb conductor of electricity. This property allied with other intrinsic qualities has ensured the replacement of copper by aluminium in many situations.
�h Aluminium is non-magnetic and non-combustible, properties invaluable in advanced industries such as electronics or in offshore structures.
�h Aluminium is non-toxic and impervious, qualities that have established its use in the food and packaging industries since the earliest times.
Other valuable properties include high reflectivity, heat barrier properties and heat conduction. The metal is malleable and easily worked by the common manufacturing and shaping processes.
Another area that is becoming increasingly important is the economic disposal of used vehicles using materials recycling. Aluminium offers the best prospects from all of the materials currently used in vehicles, approximately 95% of the aluminium in old vehicles is regained. New technologies will continually increase this, ...

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Induction system X 2-7
Gearbox system X 8-15
Injection system/ carburettor X 1-3
Water pump casing X 0.5
Petrol pump casing X 0.5
Oil pump casing X 0.5
Engine block mount X X 1.5-2.5
Engine bearing X 0.5
Differential casing X X X 5-8

Looking at the most significant components where aluminium is used:
�h Cylinder head, The cylinder head is required to be made from a material that can be readily cast with complicated internal shapes for coolant passages and inlet/exhaust ports. It must be able to operate under continuously fluctuating gas pressures and temperatures. Also good thermal conductivity is required so that lubrication remains effective, and combustible ...

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