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Edéa

a city in Cameroon, on the left bank of the Sanaga River, in Coastal Province. Population, 23,000 (1970). A trade and transportation center, Edéa is connected by railroad and highway with the city of Yaoundé and the port of Douala. It has a hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 264 megawatts (1976) on the Sanaga River. An aluminum plant in the city uses electricity from the hydroelectric plant and alumina imported from the Republic of Guinea. Other industries in Edéa include palm oil production and woodworking.

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No references found			Rio Tinto Alcan is already the majority shareholder in the aluminium company Alucam, which produces about 90,000 tonnes per year at Edea in south Cameroon. Cameroon and Rio Tinto sign production accords by AFP / AFP Asian Edition In terms of its energy supply, the country is fortunate in having massive hydro-electric potential, such as the dam on the Sanaga River which mostly furnishes power to the Edea aluminium smelter. At the crossroads by New African The Edea smelter consumes about 45% of total power output in Cameroon, so boosting production capacity to 300,000 tonnes a year, as planned by Alcan, would certainly require new generating capacity. Is aluminium the new gold? by Ford, Neil / African Business			eddy heat conduction eddy heat flux eddy kinetic energy eddy mill eddy resistance eddy spectrum eddy stress eddy velocity eddy viscosity eddy viscosity model Eddy, Henry Eddy, Mary Baker Eddy, Nelson eddy-current brake eddy-current clutch eddy-current damper eddy-current heating eddy-current loss eddy-current sensor eddy-current tachometer eddy-current test eddy-diffusion coefficient Eddystone Eddystone Rocks Ede Edea Edéa EDEL room Edel, Joseph Leon Edel, Leon Edeleanu process Edelfelt, Albert Edelinck, Gérard Edelman Edelman, Gerald M. Edelman, Gerald Maurice Edelman, Marion Edelshtein, Vitalii Edelshtein, Vitalii Ivanovich Edelstein, David Norton edelweiss Edema Edema Disease Eden Eden Gardens State Park Eden Park Eden, Anthony Eden, Anthony, 1st earl of Avon Eden, Emily Eden, Garden of Eden, Martin			eddy-current damper eddy-current heating eddy-current loss eddy-current sensor eddy-current tachometer eddy-current test Eddy-Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian Eddy-diffusion eddy-diffusion coefficient Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model Eddy-Resolving Model eddying eddying eddying Eddystone Eddystone Eddystone Model Flying Club Eddystone Rocks Eddystone Rocks Eddystone Users Group Eddyville-Blakesburg Community School District Ede Ede Ede Ede and Ravenscroft EDE limit Ede Teller Ede Teller Ede. Ede. Edea Edeá Edéa Édéa Edea, Cameroon Edéa, Cameroon EDEAC EDEAL Edean EDEC EDECA EDECE Edecrin Edecrin Edecrin Sodium EDECS EDECSO EDED EDEIS EDEKA Edel EDEL room Edel, Joseph Leon Edel, Leon EDELCA EDELE

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