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ALUMINIUM SMELTER
VOLGOGRAD ALUMINIUM SMELTER
 The Volgograd Aluminium
Smelter, located in Volgograd, was commissioned in 1959. The production
facility is served by an efficient transport infrastructure – it is linked to
the Federal Railway Network and located close to the Volgograd River Port.
The Volga-Don River canal system allows marine transport of raw materials to
the smelter and facilitates shipment of finished products to key Russian ports.
The smelter’s main product is primary aluminium. In 2007, the smelter produced
162,200 tonnes of aluminium. Energy for the facility is purchased on the
wholesale market. The smelter employs more than 3,200 people.
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The Russian city of Volgograd -
formerly known as Stalingrad and before that Tsaritsyn - is at the centre of
the Volgograd Region, stretching 100 kilometres along the right bank of the
Volga River about 1,070 kilometres southeast of Moscow. The city is a river
port and the starting point of the Volga-Don Canal, as well as an important
railway junction and airport hub. Key industries in Volgograd industries
include oil extraction and oil refining, non-ferrous metallurgy, and chemical
and petrochemical production.
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Technology
The Volgograd Aluminium Smelter deploys VSS technology (vertical stud reduction
technology with self-baking anodes), operating at an amperage of 135-160kA.
To learn more about the process of aluminium production, aluminium history and
use please visit http://www.aluminiumleader.com/en/
Development and Environment
As part of the 'Sustaining the smelter's reduction capacity' project, which is
underway at the Volgograd Aluminium Smelter, a programme for lessening
environmental risks and the conversion of thermal power consumers from steam to
superheated water, is being implemented. Electrostatic precipitators from the
dust exhaust facility at the Anode Paste Plant have been reconstructed as part
of this programme leading to precipitation efficiency of 99.4%.
Since 2007, the smelter has also been using the 'dry' anode technology, which
has resulted in a reduction in anode paste consumption and harmful emissions
into the atmosphere.
The instillation of a dry gas scrubber for Potline 3 – the largest
environmental project at the Volgograd smelter over the last few years - is
expected to be commissioned in 2008.
Implementation of programmes aimed at improving the production efficiency of
the facility and the introduction of process innovations and new methods of
reduction process management, has enabled the smelter to raise current
efficiency to 90.51%. This is the highest level of efficiency performance among
smelters with vertical stud anodes.
Management
General Director: Leonid Ragozin
Contact information
vgaz@rusal.com
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