Nippon Setouchi Works (Kure Area) steel plant

Nippon Setouchi Works (Kure Area) steel plant is a steel plant in Japan. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Nippon Steel Corp.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567271.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

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.

Capacity vs largest steel plants in Japan

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

Operator

Operated by Nippon Steel Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Nippon Setouchi Works (Kure Area) steel plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 34.2°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

• Kisa Factory · Textiles · 630 t CO₂
• ENEOS Marifu Refinery · Refinery · 659,320 t CO₂
• Nippon Daishowa Paperboard Co. Ltd - Otake Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 113,825 t CO₂
• Taiyo Oil Shikoku Refinery · Refinery · 1,069,669 t CO₂
• Tokuyama Soda Ash Facility · Chemical Plant · 39,686 t CO₂
• Masaoka Towel Co., Ltd. · Textiles · 630 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 34.22117, 132.5401. View on OpenStreetMap.

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