Botash Salt Mine and Soda Ash Plant

Botash Salt Mine and Soda Ash Plant is a chemical plant in Botswana with a reported capacity of 650,000 t of chemical. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals. It is operated by Government of Botswana . It emits about 114,750 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 26,748 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 100% below the median chemical plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-45257047.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 650,000 t of chemical, Botash Salt Mine and Soda Ash Plant está alrededor de la mediana de chemical plant en Botswana (650,000 t of chemical). Subsector: chemicals. Como chemical plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 100–500°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las plantas químicas producen una amplia gama de químicos industriales y especializados, muchos requiriendo control preciso de temperatura e input de calor sostenido para reacciones y separaciones.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 114,750 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.

Operator

Operated by Government of Botswana .

Local climate

Botash Salt Mine and Soda Ash Plant sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 20.5°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

Location

Coordinates -20.52508, 26.05995. View on OpenStreetMap.

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