Devki Steel Mills Kwale plant

Devki Steel Mills Kwale plant is a steel plant in Kenya with a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Devki Steel Mills Ltd. It emits about 671,416 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 156,507 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 24% above the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567201.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 1,000,000 t of steel, Devki Steel Mills Kwale plant está alrededor de la mediana de steel plant en Kenya (1,000,000 t of steel). Subsector: iron-and-steel. Como steel plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 800–1500°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 acero queman carbón en altos hornos o utilizan arcos eléctricos para fundir chatarra; en ambos casos el metal fundido debe mantenerse por encima de 1.500°C y transferirse a través de tuberías y recipientes calientes extensos.

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 671,416 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 Devki Steel Mills Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Devki Steel Mills Kwale plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen As), at 3.8°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• National Kaloleni Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 237,475 t CO₂
• Kenya Petroleum Mombasa Refinery · Refinery
• Bamburi Mombasa Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 441,573 t CO₂
• Mkomani Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 611,945 t CO₂
• Huaxin Tanga Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 280,264 t CO₂
• Tanzania Portland Tanga Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 645,540 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -3.77734, 39.27996. View on OpenStreetMap.

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