Alumina plant modernization
Alumina Plant is an integral part of Uniprom-KAP.
The plant has been shut down since 2009.
The original capacity of the plant was 280.000t/y.
Restart of the plant including modernization and capacity increase is estimated to cost 35 million euro and it would be performed through the following steps:
- Restart of the existing facilities
- Expansion of capacity
- First step: to evaluate what is the max. capacity when fully using the existing facilities and de-bottleneck
- Second step: to evaluate the possibilities of reaching 400~500kt/y after carrying out the first step
- Product quality improvement: comply with international market requirements
- Energy Saving
- Environmental Improvement to reach the European standard
- Red mud storage and utilization
- Dry mud storage and transportation
- Recycling iron content in the red mud
- Remove Zn O contained in bauxite
- Possibility to produce high purity Al2O3