Ordos Prefecture City — China
Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 39.40891, 108.61804.
Aluminium SmelterChinaCO₂ not individually reported
Ordos Prefecture City is an aluminium smelter in China. 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. No facility-measured CO₂ figure is available in the open dataset used here.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-48193108.
Data status
Known source data
Calculated from the dataset
Not available
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
In context: how this facility compares
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.
Carbon emissions
No facility-measured CO₂ is published for Ordos Prefecture City; Climate TRACE provides only a aluminium smelter sector-level estimate, so a precise per-site figure, ranking or carbon cost would be misleading and is not shown. No domestic carbon price — but cement, steel, aluminium, fertilizer and hydrogen exported to the EU face CBAM at €75/t (rising to 100% by 2034).
CO₂: Climate TRACE sector-level estimate (not facility-measured).
Local climate
Ordos Prefecture City sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 39.4°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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1431 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.10× 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
- CHN-Ordos_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 9,536,431 t CO₂
- Ordos City (Uxin Banner) Polyolefins - Methanol Facility · Chemical Plant · 8,544,000 t CO₂
- Yulin (Shenmu) Chemical Complex · Chemical Plant · 4,650,585 t CO₂
- Yulin (Shenmu) Chemical Complex · Chemical Plant · 240,044 t CO₂
- Inner Mongolia Yili Jidong Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 328,085 t CO₂
- Yulin, Shanxi aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 1,338,837 t CO₂
Location
Coordinates 39.40891, 108.61804. View on OpenStreetMap. Location shown at industrial-zone / municipality precision (shared source geocode).
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is Ordos Prefecture City?
Ordos Prefecture City is a aluminium smelter in China. 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.
How much CO₂ does Ordos Prefecture City emit?
The open dataset used here does not include a facility-level CO₂ value for Ordos Prefecture City.
Where is Ordos Prefecture City located?
Ordos Prefecture City is in China at approximately 39.40891, 108.61804.