Askar aluminium plant

Askar aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in Bahrain with a reported capacity of 1,650,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Aluminium Bahrain BSC. It emits about 3,506,478 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 817,361 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3672952.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 1,650,000 t of alumina/aluminum ist Askar aluminium plant etwa um dem Medianwert von aluminium smelter in Bahrain (1,650,000 t of alumina/aluminum). Untersektor: aluminum. Als aluminium smelter benötigt es intensive Prozesswärme (typischerweise 600–900°C) für seinen Kernbetrieb — Wärme, die durch Dampfkessel, Öfen oder direkte Verbrennung geliefert werden muss, und Verluste durch ungedämmte Behälter und Rohrleitungen stellen verschwendeten Brennstoff dar. Modulare abnehmbare Dämmung kann diese Verluste um 80–96% senken, Oberflächen auf ≤45°C kühlen, mit Amortisationszeiten oft unter 2 Jahren. Aluminiumhütten nutzen große Elektroströme, um Tonerde in geschmolzenes Aluminium über 900°C zu raffinieren, und das heiße Metall muss durch Tiegel und Gießausrüstung fließen.

Vergleich von Kapazität und CO₂-Intensität berechnet aus Climate TRACE Industrieanlagendaten; Sektorrolle basierend auf Ingenieurreferenz.

What 3,506,478 t CO₂e a year looks like

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.

Operator

Operated by Aluminium Bahrain BSC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Askar aluminium plant sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 26.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Bahrain Petroleum Company Refinery · Refinery · 4,006,005 t CO₂
• Askar Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 340,384 t CO₂
• Sulb Bahrain Al Hidd steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,194,208 t CO₂
• Al Ittefaq National Steel Dammam plant · Steel Plant · 423,032 t CO₂
• Al Qaryan steel plant · Steel Plant · 910,474 t CO₂
• Al Ittefaq Arab Steel Dammam plant · Steel Plant · 1,306,009 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 26.08781, 50.60294. View on OpenStreetMap.

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