Diamond Conarky Cement Plant

Diamond Conarky Cement Plant is a cement plant in Guinea with a reported capacity of 500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Diamond Cement Guinea SA. It emits about 212,740 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 49,590 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 18% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42546320.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 500,000 t of cement, Diamond Conarky Cement Plant está alrededor de la mediana de cement plant en Guinea (500,000 t of cement). 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.

What 212,740 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 Diamond Cement Guinea SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Diamond Conarky Cement Plant sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 9.7°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Friguia Bauxite Mine & Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 1,577,749 t CO₂
• Fria Prefecture · Aluminium Smelter · 215,530 t CO₂
• Boké Prefecture · Aluminium Smelter · 1,160,546 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 9.72644, -13.48847. View on OpenStreetMap.

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