Cement Plant in Austria. Approximate location 47.90876, 14.11638.
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Kirchdorfer Cement Plant is a cement plant in Austria with a reported capacity of 500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Kirchdorfer Zementwerk Hofmann GmbH. By capacity it ranks #5 of 8 cement plants tracked in Austria. It emits about 149,882 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 34,938 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 17% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437240.
Bei 500,000 t of cement ist Kirchdorfer Cement Plant etwa um dem Medianwert von cement plant in Austria (625,000 t of cement). Sein CO₂ pro Kapazitätseinheit liegt ungefähr 10% unter dem Medianwert von cement plant. 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.
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.
Reported capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kirchdorfer Zementwerk Hofmann GmbH. All facilities by this operator →
Kirchdorfer Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 47.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #5 largest of 8 cement plants in Austria by reported capacity.
Coordinates 47.90876, 14.11638. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Kirchdorfer Cement Plant is a cement plant in Austria. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Kirchdorfer Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 500,000 t of cement.
Kirchdorfer Cement Plant emits about 149,882 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 34,938 cars. That ranks #20 among tracked facilities in Austria.
Kirchdorfer Cement Plant is in Austria, near coordinates 47.90876, 14.11638.
Kirchdorfer Cement Plant is operated by Kirchdorfer Zementwerk Hofmann GmbH.