Richards Bay, Hillside aluminium plant

Richards Bay, Hillside aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in South Africa with a reported capacity of 724,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by South32 Ltd. It emits about 1,602,048 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 373,438 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 6% above the median aluminium smelter.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673154.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 724,000 t of alumina/aluminum ist Richards Bay, Hillside aluminium plant etwa um dem Medianwert von aluminium smelter in South Africa (724,000 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 1,602,048 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 South32 Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Richards Bay, Hillside aluminium plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 28.8°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

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Location

Coordinates -28.76698, 32.03106. View on OpenStreetMap.

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