Jharsuguda aluminium plant — India

Jharsuguda aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in India. Its listed capacity is 1,725,000 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 Vedanta Resources Ltd. By capacity it ranks #3 among 20 aluminium smelters in India. It emits about 3,335,222 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.67% of the CO₂e from the 297 facilities in India that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 7% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673075.

In context: how this facility compares

At 1,725,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Jharsuguda aluminium plant is well above the median aluminium smelter in India (360,000 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 3,335,222 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 India

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

Operator

Operated by Vedanta Resources Ltd.

Local climate

Jharsuguda aluminium plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 21.8°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 1232 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× 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 20 aluminium smelters in India by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• JSW BPSL Jharsuguda steel plant · Steel Plant · 8,032,381 t CO₂
• Action Ispat and Power Jharsuguda steel plant · Steel Plant · 590,939 t CO₂
• Lapanga aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 696,046 t CO₂
• Orissa Metaliks Markuta steel plant · Steel Plant · 165,642 t CO₂
• Jharsuguda District · Aluminium Smelter · 580,273 t CO₂
• Shyam Metalics Sambalpur Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 2,702,560 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 21.8089, 84.04103. View on OpenStreetMap.

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