WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company

WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company is a steel plant in China with a reported capacity of 471,410 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). By capacity it ranks #315 of 363 steel plants tracked in China. It emits about 803,462 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 187,287 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 215% above the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42741875.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 471,410 t of steel, WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company está por debajo de la mediana de steel plant en China (2,300,000 t of steel). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 33% por encima de la mediana de steel plant. 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.

What 803,462 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.

Capacity vs largest steel plants in China

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

Local climate

WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 23.5°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #315 largest of 363 steel plants in China by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Yunnan Gejiu aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 547,957 t CO₂
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• CHN-Honghe Hani and Yi_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 246,997 t CO₂
• CHN-Honghe Hani and Yi_methanol · Chemical Plant · 13,807 t CO₂
• Huaxin Cement Honghe Co Ltd Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 655,678 t CO₂
• Honghezhou Ziyan Cement Co. Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 275,514 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 23.47194, 103.27151. View on OpenStreetMap.

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