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Rio Tinto Alma smelter site for first commercial demo of ELYSIS GHG-free aluminum smelting technology
ELYSIS has selected the Alma smelter, operated by Rio Tinto in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, for the first installation and demonstration of its inert anode technology at a commercial size of 450 kiloamperes (kA) a common capacity for modern, full-scale smelters.
ELYSIS is a joint venture company, led by Rio Tinto and Alcoa, that is working to commercialize a new technology to make aluminum that eliminates all direct greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the traditional smelting process and instead produces oxygen. (Earlier post.)
Aluminum production accounts for roughly 1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions each year, via a two~step process: refining of aluminum oxide powder from bauxite ore and conversion to aluminum in smelters. The majority of the GHG emissions come from the smelting process, which uses large amounts of electricity; more than half of its total emissions come indir
ELYSIS selects Alma smelter for commercial size 450 kA inert anode prototype cells
to bring forward the start of work at the site
MONTREAL, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ ELYSIS today announced it has selected the Alma smelter, operated by Rio Tinto in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, for the first installation and demonstration of its inert anode technology at a commercial size of 450 kiloamperes (kA), which is a common capacity for modern, full-scale smelters.
ELYSIS is a joint venture company, led by Alcoa and Rio Tinto, that is working to commercialize a new technology to make aluminum that eliminates all direct greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the traditional smelting process and instead produces oxygen.
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ELYSIS completes Industrial R&D Center in Saguenay, QC
New process will reduce operating costs of aluminium smelters while increasing production capacity. December 16, 2020 by Plant Magazine
Source: ELYSIS
Work to commercialize a process that produces carbon-free aluminium reached another milestone with the completion of construction on the ELYSIS Industrial Research and Development Center in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec. ELYSIS, a joint venture by Alcoa and Rio Tinto, is scaling up a technology that eliminates all direct greenhouse gases from the aluminium smelting process, instead producing oxygen.
The completion of construction on the facility is the next step towards ramping up to industrial scale the technology, first developed at the Alcoa Technical Center near Pittsburgh in the United States. The new center will produce metal at a scale similar to smaller, industrial-sized smelting cells that are in operation by some producers today.