Steel Plant in South Korea. Approximate location 35.21573, 128.63646.
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KISCO steel Changwon plant is a steel plant in South Korea with a reported capacity of 3,000,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by KISCO Corp. By capacity it ranks #6 of 16 steel plants tracked in South Korea. It emits about 176,517 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 41,146 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 89% below the median steel plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566955.
Bei 3,000,000 t of steel ist KISCO steel Changwon plant deutlich über dem Medianwert von steel plant in South Korea (2,101,000 t of steel). Untersektor: iron-and-steel. Als steel plant benötigt es intensive Prozesswärme (typischerweise 800–1500°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. Stahlwerke verbrennen Kohle in Hochöfen oder nutzen Lichtbogenöfen zum Schmelzen von Schrott; in beiden Fällen muss das geschmolzene Metall über 1.500°C gehalten und durch umfangreiche heiße Rohrleitungen und Behälter geleitet werden.
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 steel), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by KISCO Corp. All facilities by this operator →
KISCO steel Changwon plant sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 35.2°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #6 largest of 16 steel plants in South Korea by reported capacity.
Coordinates 35.21573, 128.63646. View on OpenStreetMap.
A steel plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: reheat & annealing furnaces, ladles, hot-blast stoves, steam & gas ducting (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,200 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 3,700 MWh/yr (≈ 1,300 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
KISCO steel Changwon plant is a steel plant in South Korea. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
KISCO steel Changwon plant has a reported capacity of 3,000,000 t of steel.
KISCO steel Changwon plant emits about 176,517 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 41,146 cars. That ranks #39 among tracked facilities in South Korea.
KISCO steel Changwon plant is in South Korea, near coordinates 35.21573, 128.63646.
KISCO steel Changwon plant is operated by KISCO Corp.
