Moon Iron & Steel Company Sohar plant

Moon Iron & Steel Company Sohar plant is a steel plant in Oman with a reported capacity of 1,200,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Moon Iron and Steel Company SAOC. By capacity it ranks #2 of 3 steel plants tracked in Oman. It emits about 301,027 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 70,169 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 54% below the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566995.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 1,200,000 t of steel, Moon Iron & Steel Company Sohar plant está alrededor de la mediana de steel plant en Oman (1,200,000 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 301,027 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.

Capacity vs largest steel plants in Oman

Reported capacity (t of steel), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Moon Iron and Steel Company SAOC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Moon Iron & Steel Company Sohar plant sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 24.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 3 steel plants in Oman by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Sohar aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 850,055 t CO₂
• OMN-Sohar_methanol · Chemical Plant · 328,442 t CO₂
• Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) EPC1, Sohar, · Petrochemical · 1,235,663 t CO₂
• Sohar Steel plant · Steel Plant · 175,599 t CO₂
• ORPIC Sohar Refinery · Refinery · 2,083,130 t CO₂
• Jindal Steel Sohar plant · Steel Plant · 1,691,163 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 24.41335, 56.52246. View on OpenStreetMap.

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