Kidricevo aluminium plant — Slovenia

Kidricevo aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in Slovenia. Its listed capacity is 17,326 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 emits about 38,144 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 4.6% of the CO₂e from the 6 facilities in Slovenia that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 5% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673137.

In context: how this facility compares

At 17,326 t of alumina/aluminum, Kidricevo aluminium plant is around the median aluminium smelter in Slovenia (17,326 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 38,144 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.

Local climate

Kidricevo aluminium plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 46.4°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1402 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

Nearby industrial sites

• Talum · Metals Plant · 101,766 t CO₂
• Retznei Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 348,955 t CO₂
• VIPAP VIDEM KRŠKO d.d. Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 27,021 t CO₂
• Trbovlje Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 200,363 t CO₂
• Wietersdorf Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 165,380 t CO₂
• INA Group Sisak Refinery · Refinery

Location

Coordinates 46.39239, 15.79154. View on OpenStreetMap.

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