Metals Plant in Norway. Approximate location 60.43092, 6.43042.
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Elkem Bjølvefossen 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 #15 of 21 non-ferrous metals plants tracked in Norway. It emits about 172,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 40,093 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 274% above the median non-ferrous metals plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673284.
Przy 1 unitless, Elkem Bjølvefossen jest około medianę non-ferrous metals plant w Norway (1 unitless). Jego CO₂ na jednostkę pojemności wynosi w przybliżeniu 37% poniżej medianę non-ferrous metals plant. Podsektor: other-metals. Jako non-ferrous metals plant, wymaga intensywnego ciepła procesowego (typowo 400–1200°C) do swoich głównych operacji przemysłowych — ciepła, które musi być dostarczane przez kotły, piece lub spalanie bezpośrednie, a straty przez nieisolowane zbiorniki i rury stanowią zmarnowane paliwo. Modułowa izolacja demontowalna może zmniejszyć te straty o 80–96%, chłodząc powierzchnie do ≤45°C, z zwrotem inwestycji często poniżej 2 lat. Huty metali nieżelaznych topią, rafinują i odlewają metale w piecach i tyglach powyżej ich punktów topnienia; straty z nieisolowanych transferów i zbiorników retencyjnych są znaczące.
Porównanie pojemności i intensywności CO₂ obliczane na podstawie danych instalacji przemysłowych Climate TRACE; rola sektora oparta na odniesieniau inżynierskim.
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).
Elkem Bjølvefossen sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate zone (Köppen Dfc), at 60.4°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #15 largest of 21 non-ferrous metals plants in Norway by reported capacity.
Coordinates 60.43092, 6.43042. 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 2,600 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:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Elkem Bjølvefossen is a non-ferrous metals plant in Norway. It smelts or refines non-ferrous metals.
Elkem Bjølvefossen has a reported capacity of 1 unitless.
Elkem Bjølvefossen emits about 172,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 40,093 cars. That ranks #27 among tracked facilities in Norway.
Elkem Bjølvefossen is in Norway, near coordinates 60.43092, 6.43042.
