Carbon Capture Training for Primary Aluminium Smelting - March 2025

When: Sunday March 23, 2025 at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Time: 9 AM to 5 PM with a lunch break from noon till 1 PM. (Note: Lunch is not provided)

Location: MGM Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino (Room TBA), Las Vegas, NV, USA

The training is free of charge but you must register for the full conference to gain access.

For carbon anode type aluminium smelters, a key pathway to lower the GHG emissions is via carbon capture. It means the gas cleaning systems are expanded with an additional cleaning process to remove CO2 from the pot ventilation gases.

This is totally new for our industry. Some desktop studies have been done and a few papers have been published and only in 2025 the first industrial pilot scale tests will be conducted. There is a lot to learn still, as everyone fully understands.

To create an understanding of which processes to apply in primary aluminium smelting and how some of these can be integrated in smelting operations, a one day training course is developed by Kensington Technology's Stephan Broek in close collaboration with professor Dr. Ir. Geert Versteeg of the Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, The Netherlands. The course is part of the Light Metals program and organized by the professional development team at TMS.

The outline of the training course:

How Scope 1 GHG gases are formed in the production of anodes and aluminum and what are typical compositions.
What carbon capture technology should we consider? Other industries already operate commercial-size systems and some of them can be considered here too.
In-depth review of solvent-based CO2 capture processes.
How do we integrate a carbon capture system in a potline? This starts at the cells and impacts the ventilation systems including the gas treatment centers.
1 percent of CO2 or 4 percent of CO2? That is the question!
What are the requirements for a carbon capture system? Discussed are system performance and key design parameters.
Finally, an example of a design is prepared using a simulator for an integrated CO2 capture plant.

Attending the training course is free of charge but a full conference registration is required. For more information, visit the conference website at https://www.tms.org/TMS2025/TMS2025/PD/Introduction-to-Carbon-Capture.aspx.