Cement Plant in India. Approximate location 16.5445, 79.75873.
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Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant is a cement plant in India with a reported capacity of 2,100,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Chettinad Cement Corporation Pvt Ltd. By capacity it ranks #89 of 160 cement plants tracked in India. It emits about 940,118 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 219,142 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 24% above the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547380.
Con 2,100,000 t of cement, Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant está alrededor de la mediana de cement plant en India (2,500,000 t of cement). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 19% por encima de la mediana de cement plant. Subsector: cement. Como cement plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 800–1400°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 de cemento calientan piedra caliza a 1.400°C en hornos rotativos — uno de los procesos industriales más calientes — y deben controlar la temperatura con precisión en toda la longitud del horno.
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.
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 cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Chettinad Cement Corporation Pvt Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 16.5°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #89 largest of 160 cement plants in India by reported capacity.
Coordinates 16.5445, 79.75873. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the fuel side only.
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 14,000 MWh/yr (≈ 4,900 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:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant is a cement plant in India. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 2,100,000 t of cement.
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant emits about 940,118 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 219,142 cars. That ranks #146 among tracked facilities in India.
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant is in India, near coordinates 16.5445, 79.75873.
Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant is operated by Chettinad Cement Corporation Pvt Ltd.
