Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 37.90131, 105.94156.
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Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 570,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #47 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 1,211,329 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 282,361 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673010.
À 570,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant est bien au-dessus de la médiane des aluminium smelter en China (372,000 t of alumina/aluminum). Son CO₂ par unité de capacité est approximativement 16% au-dessus de la médiane des aluminium smelter. Sous-secteur: aluminum. Comme aluminium smelter, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 600–900°C) pour ses opérations industrielles essentielles — chaleur qui doit être fournie par des chaudières, fours ou combustion directe, et les pertes par les récipients et tuyauteries non isolés représentent du combustible gaspillé. L'isolation modulaire amovible peut réduire ces pertes de 80–96%, refroidissant les surfaces à ≤45°C, avec des délais d'amortissement souvent inférieurs à 2 ans. Les fonderies d'aluminium utilisent de grands courants électriques pour raffiner l'alumine en aluminium fondu au-dessus de 900°C, et le métal chaud doit s'écouler à travers des creusets et des équipements de coulée.
Comparaison de capacité et d'intensité de CO₂ calculée à partir des données des installations industrielles Climate TRACE; rôle du secteur basé sur la référence d'ingénierie.
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 Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant sits in a cold desert climate zone (Köppen BWk), at 37.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #47 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 37.90131, 105.94156. 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 2,600 MWh/yr (≈ 520 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.
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 570,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant emits about 1,211,329 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 282,361 cars. That ranks #535 among tracked facilities in China.
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 37.90131, 105.94156.
Yingchuan, Ningxia aluminium plant is operated by Qingtongxia Aluminum Co Ltd.
