Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 40.56704, 110.12536.
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Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 860,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Baotou Oriental Hope Aluminium Co. By capacity it ranks #35 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 1,827,619 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 426,018 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673001.
Con 860,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant está muy por encima de la mediana de aluminium smelter en China (372,000 t of alumina/aluminum). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 16% por encima de la mediana de aluminium smelter. Subsector: aluminum. Como aluminium smelter, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 600–900°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las fundiciones de aluminio utilizan grandes corrientes eléctricas para refinar alúmina en aluminio fundido por encima de 900°C, y el metal caliente debe fluir a través de crisoles y equipos de colada.
Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.
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 Baotou Oriental Hope Aluminium Co. All facilities by this operator →
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 40.6°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #35 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 40.56704, 110.12536. 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 3,100 MWh/yr (≈ 620 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.
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 860,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant emits about 1,827,619 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 426,018 cars. That ranks #398 among tracked facilities in China.
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 40.56704, 110.12536.
Baotou, Inner Mongolia aluminium plant is operated by Baotou Oriental Hope Aluminium Co.
