Askar Cement Plant

Askar Cement Plant is a cement plant in Bahrain with a reported capacity of 800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Falcon Cement Company BSC. It emits about 340,384 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 79,344 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 18% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437260.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 800,000 t of cement ist Askar Cement Plant etwa um dem Medianwert von cement plant in Bahrain (800,000 t of cement). Untersektor: cement. Als cement plant benötigt es intensive Prozesswärme (typischerweise 800–1400°C) für seinen Kernbetrieb — Wärme, die durch Dampfkessel, Öfen oder direkte Verbrennung geliefert werden muss, und Verluste durch ungedämmte Behälter und Rohrleitungen stellen verschwendeten Brennstoff dar. Modulare abnehmbare Dämmung kann diese Verluste um 80–96% senken, Oberflächen auf ≤45°C kühlen, mit Amortisationszeiten oft unter 2 Jahren. Zementanlagen erhitzen Kalkstein auf 1.400°C in Drehrohröfen — einer der heißesten Industrieprozesse — und müssen die Temperatur über die gesamte Ofenlänge präzise kontrollieren.

Vergleich von Kapazität und CO₂-Intensität berechnet aus Climate TRACE Industrieanlagendaten; Sektorrolle basierend auf Ingenieurreferenz.

What 340,384 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Operator

Operated by Falcon Cement Company BSC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Askar Cement Plant sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 26.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Askar aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 3,506,478 t CO₂
• Bahrain Petroleum Company Refinery · Refinery · 4,006,005 t CO₂
• Sulb Bahrain Al Hidd steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,194,208 t CO₂
• Al Ittefaq National Steel Dammam plant · Steel Plant · 423,032 t CO₂
• Al Qaryan steel plant · Steel Plant · 910,474 t CO₂
• Al Ittefaq Arab Steel Dammam plant · Steel Plant · 1,306,009 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 26.03218, 50.59441. View on OpenStreetMap.

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