Metals Plant in Norway. Approximate location 61.21873, 6.06832.
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Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger is a non-ferrous metals plant in Norway with a reported capacity of 1 unitless. It smelts or refines non-ferrous metals. By capacity it ranks #20 of 21 non-ferrous metals plants tracked in Norway. It emits about 104,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 24,242 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 126% above the median non-ferrous metals plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673373.
Com 1 unitless, Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger é em torno de a mediana de non-ferrous metals plant em Norway (1 unitless). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 62% abaixo de a mediana de non-ferrous metals plant. Subsetor: other-metals. Como non-ferrous metals plant, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 400–1200°C) para suas operações industriais centrais — calor que deve ser fornecido por caldeiras, fornos ou combustão direta, e as perdas através de vasos e tubulações não isolados representam combustível desperdiçado. O isolamento modular removível pode reduzir essas perdas em 80–96%, esfriando superfícies a ≤45°C, com payback geralmente inferior a 2 anos. As plantas de metais não ferrosos fundem, refinam e funderm metais em fornos e cadinhos acima de seus pontos de fusão; as perdas de transferências não isoladas e vasos de retenção são significativas.
Comparação de capacidade e intensidade de CO₂ calculada a partir dos dados de instalações industriais Climate TRACE; função do setor baseada em referência de engenharia.
This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:
Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.
Reported capacity (unitless), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate zone (Köppen Dfc), at 61.2°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #20 largest of 21 non-ferrous metals plants in Norway by reported capacity.
Coordinates 61.21873, 6.06832. View on OpenStreetMap.
A non-ferrous metals plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: furnaces, ladles, heat-treatment ovens, ducting & valves (surface/process temperatures around 150–1,000 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 2,100 MWh/yr (≈ 410 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger is a non-ferrous metals plant in Norway. It smelts or refines non-ferrous metals.
Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger has a reported capacity of 1 unitless.
Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger emits about 104,000 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 24,242 cars. That ranks #36 among tracked facilities in Norway.
Hydro Aluminium, Høyanger is in Norway, near coordinates 61.21873, 6.06832.
