Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Ltd., Tiszaujvaros

Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Ltd., Tiszaujvaros is a petrochemical in Hungary with a reported capacity of 660,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It emits about 969,582 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 226,010 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-18648361.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 660,000 t of ethylene, Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Ltd., Tiszaujvaros está alrededor de la mediana de petrochemical en Hungary (660,000 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 969,582 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

Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Ltd., Tiszaujvaros sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.9°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Kiralyegyhaza Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 259,310 t CO₂
• HUN-Kazincbarcikai_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 300,403 t CO₂
• Dvorniky Vcelare Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 478,387 t CO₂
• U. S. Steel Košice steel plant · Steel Plant · 5,155,752 t CO₂
• Carmeuse Slovakia, S.R.O. - Závod Vápenka Košice · Lime Plant · 392,168 t CO₂
• Bunge Zrt. · Food & Beverage · 111,819 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 47.91845, 21.02898. View on OpenStreetMap.

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