13DX aluminium technology improve performance at EGA’s smelter

Emirates Global Aluminium has propelled a technology upgrade pilot at the company’s Al Taweelah smelter, which will improve productivity and efficiency. The pilot upgrades to 13 DX technology reduction cells will be used to prove the performance of the new technology, called E40, before industrialisation across all 808 DX technology reduction cells at potlines 1 and 2 at Al Taweelah.

If applied to all 808 reduction cells, EGA’s E40 technology has the potential to increase hot metal production from the two potlines by 67,000 tonnes per year. It would also reduce net specific energy consumption and associated carbon dioxide emissions from power generation by approximately 6% per tonne of metal produced.

EGA has accelerated the E40 pilot programme to install the technology upgrades during the ongoing restoration of Al Taweelah, which was damaged when Iranian strikes on Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi led to an emergency shutdown.