Lime Plant in United States. Approximate location 32.91168, -115.56851.
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Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley is a lime plant in United States with a reported capacity of 178,599 t of lime. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns. By capacity it ranks #75 of 122 lime plants tracked in United States. It emits about 220,597 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 51,421 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 88% above the median lime plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38468925.
Con 178,599 t of lime, Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley está alrededor de la mediana de lime plant en United States (178,599 t of lime). Subsector: lime. Como lime plant, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 600–900°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 cal calcinan piedra caliza en hornos calientes a 800–900°C, y la cal viva caliente debe manejarse en recipientes aislados para prevenir reacción con la humedad.
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.
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.
Reported capacity (t of lime), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 32.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #75 largest of 122 lime plants in United States by reported capacity.
Coordinates 32.91168, -115.56851. View on OpenStreetMap.
A lime plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: kiln, preheater, hot-gas ducting, valves & dampers (surface/process temperatures around 200–900 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
calcination-heavy like cement; fuel side only.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 7,800 MWh/yr (≈ 2,600 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Funding. Investment tax credit up to 30% of qualified investment incl. industrial decarbonization; open to small/medium/large manufacturers.
Obligation. None at federal level (voluntary). Some states have their own programs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley is a lime plant in United States. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns.
Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley has a reported capacity of 178,599 t of lime.
Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley emits about 220,597 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 51,421 cars. That ranks #445 among tracked facilities in United States.
Spreckels Sugar Co. Brawley is in United States, near coordinates 32.91168, -115.56851.
