Opal Australian Paper - Maryvale Mill

Opal Australian Paper - Maryvale Mill is a pulp & paper mill in Australia with a reported capacity of 325,000 t of pulp & paper. It turns wood or recovered fibre into pulp and paper, with large steam and drying loads. It emits about 74,484 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 17,362 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 58% below the median pulp & paper mill.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-44375326.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 325,000 t of pulp & paper, Opal Australian Paper - Maryvale Mill está alrededor de la mediana de pulp & paper mill en Australia (325,000 t of pulp & paper). Subsector: pulp-and-paper. Como pulp & paper mill, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 150–250°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 celulosa y papel generan su propio vapor para el proceso de pulpado y secadores de papel, operando grandes sistemas de calderas donde la pérdida de calor reduce directamente la eficiencia.

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 74,484 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.

Local climate

Opal Australian Paper - Maryvale Mill sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 38.2°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

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Location

Coordinates -38.18545, 146.44533. View on OpenStreetMap.

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