Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 40.06181, 111.31492.
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Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 163,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Inner Mongolia Datang International . By capacity it ranks #112 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 297,723 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 69,399 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-43765162.
Con 163,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant está por debajo de la mediana de aluminium smelter en China (372,000 t of alumina/aluminum). 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 Inner Mongolia Datang International .
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 40.1°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #112 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 40.06181, 111.31492. 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 (≈ 390 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.
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 163,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant emits about 297,723 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 69,399 cars. That ranks #1382 among tracked facilities in China.
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 40.06181, 111.31492.
Inner Mongolia Datang aluminium plant is operated by Inner Mongolia Datang International .
