Dr. Nick Depree, Chief Technology Officer for EnPot, presented to the International Congress of Aluminum Industrial Technology and Development in Shenyang, China on how the aluminium industry can be decarbonised, now, using existing technology.

He explained how smelters can support the uptake of renewable energy in the world’s electricity grids by installing EnPot technology at aluminium smelters, as the TRIMET smelter in Essen Germany has done.

He was joined by colleagues from Universities around the world including Siberia, Norway, Slovakia and China.

Hosted by China’s Northeastern University, the conference featured a number of presentations focused on how to improve the long-term sustainability of primary aluminium production through recycling, new technologies to reduce the amount of energy used to make aluminium and modulating energy through the use of EnPot technology.