Chemical Plant in Uzbekistan. Approximate location 43.09992, 58.36318.
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Kungrad Soda Plant is a chemical plant in Uzbekistan with a reported capacity of 181,440 t of chemical. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals. By capacity it ranks #3 of 3 chemical plants tracked in Uzbekistan. It emits about 60,012 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 13,989 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-45257126.
Con 181,440 t of chemical, Kungrad Soda Plant está por debajo de la mediana de chemical plant en Uzbekistan (272,160 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.
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 chemical), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Kungrad Soda Plant sits in a cold desert climate zone (Köppen BWk), at 43.1°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #3 largest of 3 chemical plants in Uzbekistan by reported capacity.
Coordinates 43.09992, 58.36318. View on OpenStreetMap.
A chemical plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: reactors, crackers, distillation columns, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–500 °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.
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 9,500 MWh/yr (≈ 1,900 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:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Kungrad Soda Plant is a chemical plant in Uzbekistan. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals.
Kungrad Soda Plant has a reported capacity of 181,440 t of chemical.
Kungrad Soda Plant emits about 60,012 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 13,989 cars. That ranks #25 among tracked facilities in Uzbekistan.
Kungrad Soda Plant is in Uzbekistan, near coordinates 43.09992, 58.36318.
