Unique technologies: aluminum production in Russia will be the most environmentally friendly

In general, the United States, if my memory does not change, about 60 percent of the necessary aluminum is produced by themselves, 40 percent is imported. 15 percent came from the Russian Federation. The main importer today is Canada. If a decision is made to open the American market to our producers, we could sell about 2 million tons on the American market. In addition, and the most important thing, in my opinion, is that together with American companies we could think about joint work in this area. There is much to think about here, as well as joint work on rare earth metals, and in other areas, including, for example, energy. About prospects - from the Krasnoyarsk Territory Ksenia Klimina. A huge furnace is like the vent of a volcano, at the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant it is also called “dragon’s mouth”, mixes metals. The temperature is over 800 degrees. The red-hot aluminum is poured into the oven. To it add magnesium, manganese, copper, silicon or zinc - depending on the desired alloy. “This is a sample to determine the analysis in the mixer to see if the metal is suitable here or not. If the metal is suitable, we can cast it on a foundry machine, explains RUSAL Krasnoyarsk foundryman Stepan Volchenko. For the formation of ingots, special 16-meter baths are used. “The crystallizers shall be lowered and the liquid metal shall be supplied. Then the platform slowly goes down, water is supplied to the crystallizer. From the wall there is cooling, it gradually stretches, that is, the platform goes down and pulls out such ingots, says senior master of the foundry department of RUSAL Krasnoyarsk Alexander Glukhov. Fresh ingot of aluminum. It's still hot. Weight: 13 tons. Such impressive size is far from the limit. The Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant produces the largest ingots in the country. It is one of the largest aluminum producers in the world. Plant of the combined company "RUSAL". These workshops produce more than a million tons of aluminum per year. Metal is strategically important for the industry. Aluminum is used in all types of equipment - from household to space, in construction, in energy. Without this metal, it is impossible to produce airplanes and cars. Every house in the kitchen has it. Evgeny Kuryanov, managing director of RUSAL Krasnoyarsk: Aluminum has great prospects, because all high-rise buildings that are being built are large skyscrapers, they are built mainly with the use of aluminum. The company is now actively involved in the construction of innovative cars - the aluminum car itself. These are gondola cars, these are covered cars, these are thermo-tanks. There is room to grow, there is room to develop”. By brilliant silver color, you can determine aluminum of the highest grade. This is used in the space industry and the production of smartphones. 75% of the metal is exported. Now it's India, Turkey, China. In parallel with the existing production is a large construction. A modernized plant is being built on the territory of 40 hectares. Two new buildings will replace 11 buildings built during the Soviet period. At the same time, the level of production will not decrease, and thanks to the latest technological equipment, aluminum production will become as environmentally friendly as possible. Emissions into the atmosphere of benzapyrene promise to reduce to zero. Andrey Zavadyak, Head of the RUSAL Krasnoyarsk Environmental Modernization Project: The advantage of the new buildings is the powerful modern technologies of the RA550, this is the development technology of RUSAL, RA is Russian aluminum. 550 is the power of the electrolyzer. Compare, the current at the plant is 170-175 kiloampers. " In the race for the environment, RUSAL was ahead of everyone today. It has developed a unique technology of the future, which, without exaggeration, the whole world is chasing. To understand, you will have to delve a little deeper into the production processes. Now aluminists around the world produce metal using coal anodes. Alexander Gusev, project director of the electrolyzer with inert anodes of RUSAL ITC: It weighs 1 ton. After 25 days, this charcoal anode burns up and turns into one of these. At the same time, it produces 1.5 tons of CO2 per 1 ton of aluminum. That is, greenhouse gases.” RUSAL has developed the technology of inert anodes - eternal, non-burning. Instead of harmful emissions, they produce oxygen in volumes like 70 hectares of forest. Alexander Gusev: It will be a real revolution. Russia is a real leader here, and it should remain a leader in this direction for as long as possible. That is, we not only remove CO2 emissions, we replace them with oxygen emissions. It is no longer emissions, we are generating oxygen.” RUSAL has already received a dozen patents for its development. Green aluminum will soon be produced on an industrial scale. First on the planet.

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