Matadouro Central De Entre Douro E Minho, Lda. (Ci)

Matadouro Central De Entre Douro E Minho, Lda. (Ci) is a food & beverage plant in Portugal with a reported capacity of 367,740,741 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #8 of 30 food & beverage plants tracked in Portugal. It emits about 138,962 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 32,392 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38480812.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Bei 367,740,741 USD ist Matadouro Central De Entre Douro E Minho, Lda. (Ci) etwa um dem Medianwert von food & beverage plant in Portugal (367,740,741 USD). Untersektor: food-beverage-tobacco. Als food & beverage plant benötigt es intensive Prozesswärme (typischerweise 80–200°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. Lebens- und Genussmittelbetriebe nutzen Dampfkessel, Kochgeräte, Pasteurisiergeräte und Trockner, die kontinuierlich laufen; Wärmeverlust aus ungedämmten Rohrleitungen und Behältern reduziert Durchsatz und Effizienz direkt.

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

What 138,962 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 food & beverage plants in Portugal

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

Local climate

Matadouro Central De Entre Douro E Minho, Lda. (Ci) sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 41.4°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 #8 largest of 30 food & beverage plants in Portugal by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Malhinter · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Trivialtex · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Flm Textil · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Trifitrofa · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Ivn Indústria - Lavandaria/ Tinturaria · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Manuel Fernando Azevedo Sa · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 41.37402, -8.53744. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A food & beverage plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves (surface/process temperatures around 70–200 °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.

very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.

Indicative recoverable energy

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 7,000 MWh/yr (≈ 1,400 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.

Safety & the no-regret first step

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.

EU: funding & obligation

Obligation. Under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (Art. 8), large undertakings (>250 staff or >€50M turnover / >€43M balance) must run an energy audit every 4 years or operate a certified energy management system (ISO 50001).

Funding. National energy-efficiency grants and white-certificate schemes typically apply — check the local programme.

EED Article 8, transposed nationally. Confirm current national terms.

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