West Virginia Division of Energy

Aluminum industry



Aluminum industry

ALUMINUM
Partners

Century Aluminum
Pechiney
Alcan Aluminum Corp.
Koppers Ind.
Venco

Projects

Potlining Additives: Adding boron oxide to aluminum electrolysis cells to lessen energy loss. Project funding included $1,228,910 U.S. DOE OIT; $526,680 cost share. Project partners included Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc., EMEC Consultants and NSA Division of Southwire Co. and SGL Carbon Corporation.

Intelligent Pot Room Operation: Increase efficiency of refining cells and reduce average cell voltage. Project funding included $1.8 million U.S. DOE OIT; $632,000 cost share. Project partners included Applied Industrial Solutions LLC, Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc., Gensym Corp. and West Virginia University.

Plant-wide Energy Assessment at Pechiney, Ravenswood, West Virginia, plant: Energy assessment of the plant to increase efficiency and reduce energy costs, $223,863 in U.S. DOE OIT Best Practices funding, $141,185 cost share. Project partners include Pechiney and West Virginia University.