DUBAI Aluminium (Dubal) – the entirely state-owned corporation that operates the world’s largest single-site aluminium smelter using pre-bake anode technology – leveraged its strategic sponsorship of Wetex 2013, the water, energy, technology and environment exhibition,  to showcase the corporation’s on-going efficiency-improvement efforts which target optimised consumption of energy and water through technological innovation.

Dr Maryam Mohammad Al Jallaf Al Qubaisi, senior manager, process control potrooms and cell lining, welcomed HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of Dubai Civil Aviation, chairman of Emirates Airline Group and chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, to the Dubal stand shortly after he officially opened Wetex 2013 and took advantage of the opportunity to explain Dubal’s initiatives in this area.

The Dubal stand at Wetex 2013 highlighted the corporation’s world-leading in-house developed DX and DX+ reduction cell technologies which, by operating at higher amperages, not only increase productivity but also reduce the impact of Dubal’s smelter operations on the environment through improved energy efficiency and minimised emission levels.

The spotlight was also shone on Dubal’s commitment to energy conservation, specifically the fuel-efficiency enabled by the unique cogeneration configuration of the company’s captive 2,350 megawatt power station (at 30˚C), and its energy-saving successes achieved through implementing a combination of the initiatives mandated by the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy in terms of Dubai’s 2030 energy conservation strategy and Dubal’s own innovations in this area. This is further endorsed by illustrating Dubal’s successful and sustained achievement of the highest standards in environmental protection, from optimising raw material usage through effective energy-use management to minimising environmental impact through stringent management of air emissions, effluent discharge and waste.

With a hot metal production capacity in excess of 1 million tonnes per year, Dubal’s Jebel Ali complex is the largest in the Middle East. Dubal is internationally renowned for its premium purity, high-quality products. It exports more than 88 per cent of its annual production to about 57 countries across the globe. The corporation, which is widely acknowledged as the UAE’s industrial flagship, places the safety and health of its employees above other priorities.

It also owns 50 per cent of Emirates Aluminium (Emal) in Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi, where the first phase of construction is complete and has been operating at full capacity since the end of 2010. Construction of Emal Phase 2, which will increase its total production capacity to 1.3 million tonnes per year, began in mid-2011. In addition, Dubal holds shares in joint venture upstream development projects in the bauxite/alumina and calcined petroleum coke sectors.