The Cost and Technological Structure of Aluminium Smelters ... JSTOR
Third, it follows from our description of the aluminium production process that the full operating costs (FOC) of an aluminium smelter can be divided into four main categories (Nappi, 1992): * Power costs (representing in the mid1990s between 24% and 26% of the FOC) * Alumina costs (responsible on average for 3033% of these costs)