Metals Plant in Norway. Approximate location 59.86813, 5.76827.
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Sør-Norge Aluminium is a non-ferrous metals plant in Norway with a reported capacity of 1 unitless. It smelts or refines non-ferrous metals. By capacity it ranks #17 of 21 non-ferrous metals plants tracked in Norway. It emits about 142,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 33,100 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 209% above the median non-ferrous metals plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673495.
1 unitlessで、Sør-Norge AluminiumはNorwayのnon-ferrous metals plantの中央値約 1 unitlessです。 容量あたりのCO₂は、non-ferrous metals plantの中央値下約48%です。 サブセクター：other-metals。 non-ferrous metals plantとして、その中核的な産業操業に対して激しいプロセス熱（通常400–1200°C）が必要です。この熱はボイラー、炉、または直接燃焼によって供給される必要があり、未断熱容器および配管からの損失は無駄な燃料を表します。モジュール式脱着可能な断熱は、これらの損失を80～96%削減でき、表面を≤45°Cに冷却でき、回収期間は通常2年未満です。 非鉄金属工場は、融点以上の炉および坩堝で金属を溶融、精製および鋳造します。未断熱転送および保有容器からの損失は重要です。
容量およびCO₂強度の比較はClimate TRACEの産業施設データから計算されました。セクターの役割は工学リファレンスに基づいています。
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 (unitless), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Sør-Norge Aluminium sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 59.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #17 largest of 21 non-ferrous metals plants in Norway by reported capacity.
Coordinates 59.86813, 5.76827. View on OpenStreetMap.
A non-ferrous metals plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: furnaces, ladles, heat-treatment ovens, ducting & valves (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.
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 2,400 MWh/yr (≈ 470 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:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Sør-Norge Aluminium is a non-ferrous metals plant in Norway. It smelts or refines non-ferrous metals.
Sør-Norge Aluminium has a reported capacity of 1 unitless.
Sør-Norge Aluminium emits about 142,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 33,100 cars. That ranks #30 among tracked facilities in Norway.
Sør-Norge Aluminium is in Norway, near coordinates 59.86813, 5.76827.
