Petkim Petrochemicals Holding Co., Aliaga, Izmir

Petkim Petrochemicals Holding Co., Aliaga, Izmir is a petrochemical in Türkiye with a reported capacity of 588,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It emits about 863,810 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 201,354 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 9% above the median petrochemical.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-18648377.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 588,000 t of ethylene, Petkim Petrochemicals Holding Co., Aliaga, Izmir está alrededor de la mediana de petrochemical en Türkiye (588,000 t of ethylene). Subsector: petrochemical-steam-cracking. Como petrochemical, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 300–800°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 petroquímicas agrietan hidrocarburos a temperaturas muy altas para producir etileno, propileno y otros químicos básicos — uno de los procesos industriales más intensivos en calor.

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 863,810 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

Petkim Petrochemicals Holding Co., Aliaga, Izmir sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 38.8°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

• Tupras Izmir Refinery · Refinery · 2,339,161 t CO₂
• STAR Aliaga Oil Refinery · Refinery · 2,720,977 t CO₂
• Habas Aliaga steel plant · Steel Plant · 286,486 t CO₂
• İDÇ Izdemir Aliaga steel plant · Steel Plant · 174,605 t CO₂
• Kardemir Celik Sanayi Izmir steel plant · Steel Plant · 218,903 t CO₂
• Cebitas steel plant · Steel Plant · 150,605 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 38.79194, 26.93242. View on OpenStreetMap.

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