Essen aluminium plant — Germany

Essen aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in Germany. Its listed capacity is 85,000 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. It is operated by Trimet Aluminium SE. By capacity it ranks #2 among 5 aluminium smelters in Germany. It emits about 183,833 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.16% of the CO₂e from the 118 facilities in Germany that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673051.

In context: how this facility compares

At 85,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Essen aluminium plant is well above the median aluminium smelter in Germany (67,000 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 183,833 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 Germany

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

Operator

Operated by Trimet Aluminium SE. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Essen aluminium plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 51.5°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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1400 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.08× 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 #2 largest of 5 aluminium smelters in Germany by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• TRIMET Aluminium SE · Metals Plant · 283,000 t CO₂
• BP Gelsenkirchen , Gelsenkirchen · Petrochemical · 1,345,411 t CO₂
• BP Gelsenkirchen Refinery · Refinery · 3,280,904 t CO₂
• ArcelorMittal Duisburg steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,191,933 t CO₂
• ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant · Steel Plant · 17,975,297 t CO₂
• Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) steel plant · Steel Plant · 7,252,359 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 51.49317, 6.96349. View on OpenStreetMap.

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