Aluminium Smelter in Spain. Approximate location 43.69697, -7.45774.
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San Ciprian aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in Spain with a reported capacity of 9,100 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. By capacity it ranks #3 of 3 aluminium smelters tracked in Spain. It emits about 20,116 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 4,689 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 6% above the median aluminium smelter.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-43765124.
На мощности 9,100 t of alumina/aluminum San Ciprian aluminium plant — это ниже медианная aluminium smelter в Spain (66,508 t of alumina/aluminum). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 56% выше медианной aluminium smelter. Подсектор: aluminum. Как aluminium smelter, оно требует высокотемпературного технологического тепла (обычно 600–900°C) для основных промышленных операций — тепла, которое должно подаваться котлами, печами или прямым сжиганием, и потери через неизолированные сосуды и трубопроводы представляют потраченное впустую топливо. Съёмная модульная теплоизоляция может снизить эти потери на 80–96%, охладив поверхность оборудования до ≤45°C, с окупаемостью часто менее 2 лет. Алюминиевые плавильни используют большие электрические токи для рафинирования глинозёма в расплавленный алюминий выше 900°C, и расплавленный металл должен течь через тигли и литейное оборудование.
Сравнение производительности и интенсивности CO₂ рассчитано на основе данных промышленных объектов Climate TRACE; роль сектора основана на инженерных справочниках.
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 (t of alumina/aluminum), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
San Ciprian aluminium plant sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 43.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #3 largest of 3 aluminium smelters in Spain by reported capacity.
Coordinates 43.69697, -7.45774. View on OpenStreetMap.
A aluminium smelter like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: alumina calciner, casthouse furnaces, hot ducting (electrolysis itself is electric) (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.
electrolysis is mostly electricity (Scope 2) + anode process; on-site combustion small - insulation mainly relevant to alumina refining/casthouse.
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 1,800 MWh/yr (≈ 360 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.
Obligation. Under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (Art. 8), large undertakings (>250 staff or >€50M turnover / >€43M balance) must run an energy audit every 4 years or operate a certified energy management system (ISO 50001).
Funding. National energy-efficiency grants and white-certificate schemes typically apply — check the local programme.
EED Article 8, transposed nationally. Confirm current national terms.
San Ciprian aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in Spain. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
San Ciprian aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 9,100 t of alumina/aluminum.
San Ciprian aluminium plant emits about 20,116 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 4,689 cars. That ranks #162 among tracked facilities in Spain.
San Ciprian aluminium plant is in Spain, near coordinates 43.69697, -7.45774.
