Solutions for aluminium smelters

Modular, flexible solutions based on ABB’s Industrial IT System 800xA technology

ABB supplies integrated process control systems that can improve plant-wide efficiency and productivity.

Our Industrial IT System 800xA for process control, provide easy access through a single window to the process, production, quality and business information - from the most remote location to corporate headquarters. ABB provides tailored automation solutions that use real-time data - enabling constant monitoring and analysis of the process combined with improved asset availability. 

Aluminium production automation and optimization

ABB’s electrification solutions are engineered for safety, flexibility and security to keep operations running day and night. Our references are unmatched, with a track record of supplying electrification systems for more than 40 smelters worldwide. 

ABB offers the broadest range of high, medium, and low voltage equipment for switching and distributing electrical power to the plant. High power rectiformers with single unit references of 120kA and 2100VDC. ABB’s FOCS 600kA fibre optic DC measuring system of highest quality. Solutions are engineered for safety, flexibility and security to keep operations running day and night, including emergency power generation and UPS, industrial sub-stations, harmonic correction equipment, switchgear, and transformers. We provide you with state-of-the-art technology to exceed today’s rigorous power demands. 

Our experienced infrastructure engineers will maximize your investment and save energy costs due to our innovative design of the energy distribution and positioning of substations and electrical rooms. Greatest consideration will be given, for example, to the locations of electrical rooms and substations, as these contribute directly to the operational costs and losses due to cable lengths and distances between electrical rooms and electrical consumers.

DC or AC power from ABB - reliable, efficient and robust

ABB's high power rectifiers and converters provide maximum availability and highest productivity. As a leading worldwide supplier of DC rectifiers or AC converters for any industrial application, ABB has the experience and technological expertise to fulfill your demanding requirements with high priority on personnel safety. Medium current (MCR) and high current rectifiers (HCR) provide DC current in the range of 5,000 to 550,000 A as single or multiple units. 

• High power rectifiers

ABB’s long tradition as a key supplier of integrated drives solutions is based on a deep know how of the Aluminium Industry. ABB is able to provide the complete drives systems portfolio as required by the various applications. 

ABB's drives solutions for the Aluminium Industry are designed to meet the requirements of the process and to fit properly into the plant environment. ABB is taking care about the interfaces to the supplying network, the load machine, the control system and the infrastructure by providing various engineering services.
 
The drives solutions are optimized in regard to the total life cycle costs, considering as well possible indirect costs or savings based on the importance of the equipment in process.
ABB’s drives solutions, tied up to comprehensive packages of supply and services, create real added value and economical benefit to our customers over the whole life cycle of operation. 

Analyzers for the process industries

For over half a century, ABB has developed, manufactured, and installed analyzers for the process industries. 

Our capability embraces one of the largest laboratory, at-line and process analyzer portfolios in the world, performing real-time analysis of the chemical composition and/or physical properties of a process sample or stream. 

Our advanced solutions combine analyzers, Advanced Process Control, process and application knowledge to improve process performance, productivity, capacity and safety of our customers processes. For more information on measurement products, please click the link below:  

• Measurement and Analytics

With ABB’s automation solutions, process control, instrumentation, optimization functions and business information systems, your solution is integrated as one.

ABB's Knowledge-based solutions portfolio comprises Knowledge Systems, Optimization Systems, Enterprise Connectivity Solutions, Analyzers and Loop Performance Managers.

ABB’s Optimization Systems is a suite of optimization solutions for the aluminium industry consisting of the Expert Optimizer and Economic Process Optimization. They allow you to reach new levels of plant performance.

ABB’s Knowledge Systems using our extensive solutions portfolio, comprising Knowledge Manager and the Production Information Management System, the data from your process control system is collected and converted to production information. Together with extensive process knowledge and proven advanced control techniques, this information is used to monitor and tune your processes to improve process efficiency and product quality.

• Optimization and information management
• Expert Optimizer
• Knowledge Manager

ABB’s electromagnetic stirrers for the aluminum industry (AL-EMS) make a significant contribution to improving cost-efficiency by improving productivity and quality for aluminum melting, holding and refining operations.

With over 380 systems installed worldwide, including both air and liquid-cooled and side and bottom-mounted stirrers, ABB is by far the most experienced supplier of electromagnetic stirring solutions for aluminum. This experience has given us unparalleled expertise that we use to continually develop our comprehensive product portfolio, in order to provide the solution best suited to your needs, and to ensure that our equipment is not only professionally installed, but delivers maximum process improvements for your business.

• Electromagnetic stirrers for aluminium furnaces

The Added Value of an ABB Partnership

We supply solutions for life-cycle services and support of equipment for the Primary Aluminium industries. With a vast network of service centers, ABB focuses on helping your company to ensure results.

• Metals service