Premium Steel Warri plant

Premium Steel Warri plant is a steel plant in Nigeria. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Premium Steel and Mines Ltd.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567312.

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 Nigeria

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

Operator

Operated by Premium Steel and Mines Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Premium Steel Warri plant sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 5.5°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

• NNPC Warri Refinery · Refinery · 76,189 t CO₂
• Edo Modular Refinery · Refinery · 78,986 t CO₂
• OPAC Modular Refinery · Refinery · 43,881 t CO₂
• DMCL Modular Refinery · Refinery · 10,970 t CO₂
• Aradel Modular Refinery · Refinery · 48,269 t CO₂
• Waltersmith Modular Refinery · Refinery · 21,940 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 5.48229, 5.77017. View on OpenStreetMap.

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