Emal Company has awarded Fives Solios with a turnkey contract for the design, supply, installation & start-up of a Bath Treatment Plant for their new smelter located in the Industrial zone of Taweelah Port in Abu Dhabi.
Emirates Aluminium (EMAL), a joint venture between Dubai Aluminium Company (DUBAL) and Mubadala, have started the construction of one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world.
In 2010, the initial capacity of this plant will be 700,000 tons with a phase 2 expansion to follow at 1,400,000 tons per year.
This contract consists of the engineering & supply for all equipment inluding:
- Hot crushing of the crust shovels and anodes butts cleaning bath,
- Cooling in a metallic pan conveyor,
- Processing in an airswept autogenous mill designed by Fives Solios, for the product storage dedicated to covering the electrolysis pots.
The upstream part of the bath cooling will be equipped with a duct network for fluoride fumes collection connected to the GTC in order to reduce the global emissions of the smelter.
This order will implement CELSIOS, the Clean Bath Processing Solution, the latest Fives Solios technology for the hot bath treatment developed by Solios Carbone.
Start-up of the plant is planned for October 2009.
