SOCAR Sumgait Azerichimya, Sumgait

SOCAR Sumgait Azerichimya, Sumgait is a petrochemical in Azerbaijan with a reported capacity of 210,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It is operated by State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic . It emits about 250,810 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 58,464 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 11% below the median petrochemical.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-731999.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 210,000 t of ethylene, SOCAR Sumgait Azerichimya, Sumgait está alrededor de la mediana de petrochemical en Azerbaijan (210,000 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 250,810 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.

Operator

Operated by State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic .

Local climate

SOCAR Sumgait Azerichimya, Sumgait sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 40.6°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

• Baku Steel Company steel plant · Steel Plant · 133,350 t CO₂
• Garadagh Methanol · Chemical Plant · 240,300 t CO₂
• SOCAR Heydar Aliyev Baku Refinery · Refinery · 1,208,033 t CO₂
• Norm Sement Qizildas Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 695,596 t CO₂
• Holcim Garadagh Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 388,063 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 40.60619, 49.62422. View on OpenStreetMap.

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