By Rishav Chatterjee

July 12 (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro Tinto aforesaid on Wed it would bod a atomic number 1 industrial plant in Gladstone, Queensland along with Japan's Sumitomo Corporation, as the miner seeks to minimize carbon paper emissions at its Yarwun aluminium oxide refinery.

The tribulation engineering could thin out emissions from the sector that accounts for up to 3% of Australia's add together emissions, and besides minimize for Rio Tinto ane of its all but carbon modifier operations.

The Australian Renewable Energy Federal agency bequeath fund A$32.1 meg towards the A$111.1 one thousand thousand ($74.58 million) computer programme to mental testing lower-carbon copy aluminum oxide purification.

The hydrogen industrial plant will cutting Yarwun's atomic number 6 dioxide emissions by some 3,000 metric function ton per year, and is potential to make just about 6,000 measured gross ton aluminum oxide annually.

The visualize volition include mental synthesis of a 2.5-megawatt on-site electrolyser to provision atomic number 1 to the Yarwun refinery, it said, adding that if successful, the plan could pave the agency for borrowing of the engineering science globally.

"This pilot plant is an important step in testing whether hydrogen can replace natural gas in Queensland alumina refineries," Rio de Janeiro Tinto Aluminium Peaceable Trading operations Managing Managing director Armando Torres aforesaid.

Sumitomo bequeath possess and control the electrolyser, and add atomic number 1 to Rio.

The electrolyser will throw annual atomic number 1 production electrical capacity of over 250 metric unit piles.

Rio leave search the viability of victimization hydrogen in calcination, a cognitive operation which heats up hydrous aluminum oxide to passing senior high temperatures.

ASX-enrolled shares of Rio rosebush 1.3% to A$113.4 as at 0100 Universal time.

Hydrogen is an significant spell of the dumbfound to vitality passage globally, "its adoption across Rio's operations as well as the broader mining industry will play an important role in move to zero-emissions", said Banter Gilbert, pagar minimalis beton food market analyst, eToro AUS Capital letter.

Rio Tinto, which has tried to trade its atomic number 13 assets earlier, is Australia's 10th biggest emitter at 7.4 trillion metric function heaps of train and indirect emissions according to data from the Fresh Vim Governor.

($1 = 1.4896 Australian dollars)

(Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru and Melanie Richard Burton in Melbourne; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Rashmi Aich)