Steel Plant in Austria. Approximate location 47.38128, 15.06266.
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Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant is a steel plant in Austria with a reported capacity of 850,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH. By capacity it ranks #2 of 2 steel plants tracked in Austria. It emits about 1,335,721 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 311,357 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 191% above the median steel plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566430.
Bei 850,000 t of steel ist Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant unter dem Medianwert von steel plant in Austria (6,000,000 t of steel). Sein CO₂ pro Kapazitätseinheit liegt ungefähr 7% unter dem Medianwert von steel plant. 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 Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH. All facilities by this operator →
Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 47.4°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #2 largest of 2 steel plants in Austria by reported capacity.
Coordinates 47.38128, 15.06266. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant is a steel plant in Austria. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant has a reported capacity of 850,000 t of steel.
Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant emits about 1,335,721 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 311,357 cars. That ranks #3 among tracked facilities in Austria.
Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant is in Austria, near coordinates 47.38128, 15.06266.
Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz steel plant is operated by Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH.