Yuanping Alumina Refinery — China

Yuanping Alumina Refinery is an aluminium smelter in China. Its listed capacity is 2,600,000 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 Shanxi Luneng Jinbei Aluminum Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #13 among 81 aluminium smelters in China. It emits about 3,527,680 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.13% of the CO₂e from the 1,485 facilities in China that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 35% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-43765115.

In context: how this facility compares

At 2,600,000 t of alumina/aluminum, Yuanping Alumina Refinery is well above the median aluminium smelter in China (450,000 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 3,527,680 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 China

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

Operator

Operated by Shanxi Luneng Jinbei Aluminum Co Ltd.

Local climate

Yuanping Alumina Refinery sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 38.8°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1413 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.09× 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 #13 largest of 81 aluminium smelters in China by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Yuanping Dingji Building Materials Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant
• Yuanping Haifeng Building Materials Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant
• Xinzhou Prefecture City · Aluminium Smelter · 8,976,367 t CO₂
• Daixian Hongwei Cement Co. Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 851,683 t CO₂
• Xinfu District Xinhai Lime Factory, Xinzhou City. · Lime Plant
• Taiyuan Shanshui Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 222,595 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 38.7873, 112.79369. View on OpenStreetMap.

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