Steel Plant in South Korea. Approximate location 37.49042, 126.63441.
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Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant is a steel plant in South Korea with a reported capacity of 4,697,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Hyundai Steel Co. By capacity it ranks #4 of 16 steel plants tracked in South Korea. It emits about 276,367 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 64,421 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 89% below the median steel plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566953.
Con 4,697,000 t of steel, Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant está muy por encima de la mediana de steel plant en South Korea (2,101,000 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.
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 Hyundai Steel Co. All facilities by this operator →
Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 37.5°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #4 largest of 16 steel plants in South Korea by reported capacity.
Coordinates 37.49042, 126.63441. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant is a steel plant in South Korea. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant has a reported capacity of 4,697,000 t of steel.
Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant emits about 276,367 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 64,421 cars. That ranks #35 among tracked facilities in South Korea.
Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant is in South Korea, near coordinates 37.49042, 126.63441.
Hyundai Steel Incheon steel plant is operated by Hyundai Steel Co.
