Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 38.02799, 107.0608.
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Ningdong aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 300,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by State Power Investment Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #83 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 547,957 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 127,729 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-43765170.
Bei 300,000 t of alumina/aluminum ist Ningdong aluminium plant etwa um dem Medianwert von aluminium smelter in China (372,000 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.
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 State Power Investment Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Ningdong aluminium plant sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 38.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #83 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 38.02799, 107.0608. 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 2,100 MWh/yr (≈ 430 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.
Ningdong aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Ningdong aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 300,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Ningdong aluminium plant emits about 547,957 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 127,729 cars. That ranks #1027 among tracked facilities in China.
Ningdong aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 38.02799, 107.0608.
Ningdong aluminium plant is operated by State Power Investment Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd.
