Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 23.33344, 107.49337.
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Pingguo Xian aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 140,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Pingguo Aluminum Co. By capacity it ranks #116 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 255,713 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 59,607 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 13% below the median aluminium smelter.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-43765171.
عند 140,000 t of alumina/aluminum، يكون Pingguo Xian aluminium plant أقل من متوسط aluminium smelter في China (372,000 t of alumina/aluminum). القطاع الفرعي: aluminum. كـ aluminium smelter، يتطلب حرارة عملية مكثفة (عادة 600–900°C) لعملياته الصناعية الأساسية — حرارة يجب توفيرها بواسطة الغلايات أو الأفران أو الاحتراق المباشر، والخسائر من خلال الحاويات والأنابيب غير المعزولة تمثل وقود مهدر. يمكن للعزل المعياري القابل للإزالة أن يقلل هذه الخسائر بمقدار 80-96٪، وتبريد الأسطح إلى ≤45°C، مع فترة استرجاع غالباً أقل من سنتين. تستخدم مصاهر الألومنيوم تيارات كهربائية كبيرة لتحسين الألومينا إلى ألومنيوم مذاب فوق 900°C، ويجب أن يتدفق المعدن الساخن عبر البواتق ومعدات الصب.
مقارنة السعة وكثافة CO₂ محسوبة من بيانات منشآت Climate TRACE الصناعية؛ دور القطاع بناءً على مرجع الهندسة.
This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:
Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.
Reported capacity (t of alumina/aluminum), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Pingguo Aluminum Co. All facilities by this operator →
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 23.3°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #116 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 23.33344, 107.49337. View on OpenStreetMap.
A aluminium smelter like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: alumina calciner, casthouse furnaces, hot ducting (electrolysis itself is electric) (surface/process temperatures around 150–1,000 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
electrolysis is mostly electricity (Scope 2) + anode process; on-site combustion small - insulation mainly relevant to alumina refining/casthouse.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 1,900 MWh/yr (≈ 380 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 140,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant emits about 255,713 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 59,607 cars. That ranks #2397 among tracked facilities in China.
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 23.33344, 107.49337.
Pingguo Xian aluminium plant is operated by Pingguo Aluminum Co.
