Korea Building Materials Gomusan Cement Plant

Korea Building Materials Gomusan Cement Plant is a cement plant in North Korea with a reported capacity of 2,000,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). By capacity it ranks #2 of 10 cement plants tracked in North Korea. It emits about 785,982 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 183,213 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 9% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547258.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 2,000,000 t of cement ist Korea Building Materials Gomusan Cement Plant deutlich über dem Medianwert von cement plant in North Korea (1,439,000 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 785,982 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.

Capacity vs largest cement plants in North Korea

Reported capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Korea Building Materials Gomusan Cement Plant sits in a monsoon warm-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwb), at 42.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 10 cement plants in North Korea by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Ch'ŏngjin Ironworks steel plant · Steel Plant · 2,403,184 t CO₂
• Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 8,508,209 t CO₂
• Jilin Chenming Paper Co Ltd - Shandong Chenming Paper Group · Pulp & Paper Mill · 258,963 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 42.12149, 129.69493. View on OpenStreetMap.

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