2nd Annual Power and Desalination

Summit
17 18 March 2013
Bader M Al-Saleem

Table of Contents

Maaden Current Business

Available Infrastructure at Ras
Al-Khair
Maaden Aluminium Company
Maaden Aluminium Future

Current MAADEND Business

World class diversified
mining and minerals
group.
Organized to develop
non-petroleum
resources into
competitive industries.

National Infrastructure Enhancement

Saudi Arabian Railway (SAR)

1,500 km long north- south railway
line was been built and is owned and
operated bySaudi Arabian Railway
Company (SAR)
The railway links the phosphate mine
at Al Jalamid and the bauxite mine
site at Al Ba'itha to the mineral
industries complex at Ras Al Khair

Saudi Ports Authority (SEAPA)

The port at Ras Al Khair was
constructed and is owned and
operated by the Saudi Ports
Authority and was built to serve
more than 80 different industrial
projects in the region including the
import and export requirements of
Ma'aden's Aluminium and
phosphate operations builtbon 23
km2

Ras Al-Khair Minerals Industrial City

The Royal Commission for Jubail and
Yanbu will manage the Ras Al Khair
Industrial Area and provide services
for industries located there in the
same way as Jubail and Yanbu
Industrial cities

Maaden Operations (KSA)

One Project - Two Phases

Baiytha

Maaden Aluminum Company

1,350 MW

MINE

SWCC

4,000 ktpy (dry)

Bauxite Ore

Alumina
Refinery

Bulk Alumina

1,800 ktpy

Alumina

Aluminum
Smelter

Phase 2

740 ktpy

Aluminum
Standard Ingot &
T-Bar

Export Sales

Rolling Slab
Rolling Mill
380 ktpy

Phase 1

Flat Rolled
Products

Domestic Sales

Aluminum End-user Applications

Casting
Products

Rolled
Products

Wires &
Cables

Extrusions

Combined Power Project with SWCC

2400MW
SWCC
Power

SWCC Water

SWCC
power

1050MW
to SEC

Maaden
power

1.025 M m3/d
Maaden
Water

50MW DS Maaden off take 1350MW

& 0.025 mM3/d
industries
in RSZ

SWCC water

SWCC Off take

1M m3/d

Larger Station with Efficient Energy Utilization

Maaden
Power

Maaden
Water

Economies of scale
- Capital - single EPC, building cost
- Operating - single O&M contract
Significantly lower capital investment
Improved efficiencies by cogenerating of power & water

Aluminium Smelting Process

Pot Of Electrical
Furnace

The basis for all Aluminium smelting

plants Process is Alumina dissolved in
an electrolytic bath of molten cryolite
(sodium Aluminium fluoride) within a
large carbon or graphite lined steel
container known as a "pot". An
electric current is passed through the
electrolyte at low voltage, but very
high current. The electric current
flows between a carbon anode
(positive), made of petroleum coke
and pitch, and a cathode (negative),
formed by the thick carbon or
graphite lining of the pot.
Molten Aluminium is deposited at the
bottom of the pot and is siphoned off
periodically, taken to a holding
furnace, and it may be blended to an
alloy specification, cleaned and then
generally cast

Aluminum Price - US Dollars per Metric Tonne for 20 years

Aluminum, 99.5% minimum purity, LME spot price, CIF UK ports, US Dollars per Metric Tonne

ALUMINIUM SMELTING ENERGY INTENSITY

SEC POWER INDUSTRIAL TARIFF = 40 USD/MWH (14.654 * 40 = 590 USD)

Kilowatt hours (kWh) per ton of Aluminium (AC)

Period

Africa

Asia (ex China) China

2011

14,433

14,756

13,913

GCC
14,654

South America North America Europe

Oceania

World

16,075

15,003

14,713

South America North America Europe

Oceania

World

14,973

14,074

13,847

15,409

15,667

Kilowatt hours (kWh) per ton of Aluminium (DC

Period

Africa

Asia (ex China) China

2011

13,807

13,983

13,082

GCC
13,850

14,588

14,668

Mega joules (MJ) per ton of Alumina

Period

Africa & Asia (ex

China)

China

North America

South America

Europe

Oceania

World

2011

15,163

16,640

11,262

9,043

14,170

13,677

14,060

INTERNATIONAL ALUMINIUM INSTITUTE,

Date of Issue: 12 Oct 2012

 Aluminium smelting is energy intensive, that

explains why the world's smelters are located in
areas have abundant power resources (hydroelectric, natural gas, coal or nuclear).

In the Most of the locations, the electricity is

generated specifically for the Aluminium plant.

The smelting process is continuous and the

smelter cannot easily be stopped and restarted.
If production is interrupted by a power supply
failure of more than four hours, the metal in the
pots will solidify, often requiring an expensive
rebuilding process and very long time to restart.
From time to time individual pot linings reach
the end of their useful life and the pots are then
taken out of service and relined

Value of Smelter Energy and Interruptability :

Aluminium Smelter can help Power Utility Company (SEC) to avoid potential black-outs of the
electrical transmission system (Smeller case happened in European Power System in November
2006).
Aluminium smelters can provide large amounts of electricity instantaneously and with a very high
degree of reliability because they are very large consumers of electrical power that operate
continuously at base load.
Owing to their ability to interrupt electrical load instantaneously. Therefore, they can respond in a
faster time to emergencies than any back-up electricity generator, allowing time for other
measures to be brought into play;
Aluminium smelters are also able to reduce power consumption for sustained periods in order to
increase transmission system security and to cope with periods of peak demand on the grid. The
duration that load may be interrupted depends on the technology of the electrolytic cells,

Power Price Determination

As a rule of thump; Power Plant Capital cost will be 1000 USD / KW
Power Price per MWH will be summation of :
Fuel Cost
O&M Cost
Financing Fee
Tolling Fee
SEC Agreements Cost (Back-up Power Supply, Energization Agreement.etc.)
Marginal Profit if Power from IPP

Thanks