A Markovian analysis of the propagation kinetics of anode slimes in electrorefining cells

The propagation of anode slimes generated in laboratory-scale electro-refining cells is analyzed by means of Markov process theory, where experimental kinetic data are interpreted as a temporal evolution of cluster probabilities. The probability distributions complement graphs depicting area fractions occupied by slime versus time, and offer an alternative view of slime propagation, vis-à-vis more traditional visualization-based analyses.