Bảo Lâm District — Vietnam

Bảo Lâm District is an aluminium smelter in Vietnam. Its listed capacity is 103,138 t of alumina/aluminum. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment. By capacity it ranks #3 among 3 aluminium smelters in Vietnam. It emits about 215,530 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.26% of the CO₂e from the 90 facilities in Vietnam that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673152.

In context: how this facility compares

At 103,138 t of alumina/aluminum, Bảo Lâm District is around the median aluminium smelter in Vietnam (108,850 t of alumina/aluminum). Subsector: aluminum. As aluminium smelter, it requires high process heat (typically 600–900°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 215,530 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest aluminium smelters in Vietnam

Listed capacity (t of alumina/aluminum), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Local climate

Bảo Lâm District sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 11.7°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1285 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.99× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #3 largest of 3 aluminium smelters in Vietnam by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Đắk R'Lấp District · Aluminium Smelter · 227,467 t CO₂
• Dak Nong Nhan Co Bauxite Mine & Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 1,504,608 t CO₂
• ASEAN Steel Hoa Phu steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,219,977 t CO₂
• VAS Tue Minh Steel Binh Duong plant · Steel Plant
• Vicem Ha Tien 1 Cement Binh Phuoc Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 634,166 t CO₂
• Cheng Yang Paper Mill Co. Ltd · Pulp & Paper Mill · 54,042 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 11.68645, 107.75943. View on OpenStreetMap.

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