Aluminium Smelter in China. Approximate location 34.98422, 104.63569.
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Gansu Longxi aluminium plant is an aluminium smelter in China with a reported capacity of 250,000 t of alumina/aluminum. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis. It is operated by Gansu Longxi Dongxing Smelter . By capacity it ranks #92 of 141 aluminium smelters tracked in China. It emits about 456,631 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 106,441 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 13% below the median aluminium smelter.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-43765151.
При потужності 250,000 t of alumina/aluminum Gansu Longxi aluminium plant — це нижче медіана aluminium smelter у China (372,000 t of alumina/aluminum). Підсектор: aluminum. Як aluminium smelter, воно вимагає високотемпературного технологічного тепла (зазвичай 600–900°C) для основних промислових операцій — тепла, яке повинне подаватися котлами, печами або прямим спаленням, і втрати через неізольовані судини та трубопроводи представляють витрачене напразно паливо. Знімна модульна теплоізоляція може зменшити ці втрати на 80–96%, охолодивши поверхню обладнання до ≤45°C, з окупністю часто менше 2 років. Алюмінієві плавильні використовують великі електричні струми для рафінування глинозему в розплавлений алюміній вище 900°C, і розплавлений метал повинен текти через тиглі та ливарне обладнання.
Порівняння продуктивності та інтенсивності CO₂ розраховано на основі даних промислових об'єктів Climate TRACE; роль сектору заснована на інженерних довідниках.
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).
Operated by Gansu Longxi Dongxing Smelter .
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant sits in a monsoon warm-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwb), at 35.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #92 largest of 141 aluminium smelters in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 34.98422, 104.63569. 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 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:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant is a aluminium smelter in China. It smelts alumina into primary aluminium by high-current electrolysis.
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant has a reported capacity of 250,000 t of alumina/aluminum.
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant emits about 456,631 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 106,441 cars. That ranks #1152 among tracked facilities in China.
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant is in China, near coordinates 34.98422, 104.63569.
Gansu Longxi aluminium plant is operated by Gansu Longxi Dongxing Smelter .
