San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant

San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant is a cement plant in Nicaragua with a reported capacity of 420,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by CEMEX SAB de CV. It emits about 93,400 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 21,772 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 38% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438962.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 420,000 t of cement, San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant está alrededor de la mediana de cement plant en Nicaragua (420,000 t of cement). Subsector: cement. Como cement plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 800–1400°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 cemento calientan piedra caliza a 1.400°C en hornos rotativos — uno de los procesos industriales más calientes — y deben controlar la temperatura con precisión en toda la longitud del horno.

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 93,400 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.

Operator

Operated by CEMEX SAB de CV. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 11.9°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

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• Annic Ii S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
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• Puma Energy Managua Refinery · Refinery · 85,888 t CO₂
• Sharon Nicaragua S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
• Textiles Youmkwang S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
• Grupo Alfatech, S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 11.86067, -86.42416. View on OpenStreetMap.

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