Lime Plant in China. Approximate location 29.85569, 115.52501.
Lime PlantChinaCO₂ reported
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. is a lime plant in China with a reported capacity of 200,000 t of lime. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns. By capacity it ranks #1096 of 1,349 lime plants tracked in China. It emits about 131,693 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 30,698 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38467714.
Con 200,000 t of lime, Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. está por debajo de la mediana de lime plant en China (409,811 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).
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 29.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1096 largest of 1349 lime plants in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 29.85569, 115.52501. 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 5,600 MWh/yr (≈ 1,900 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.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. is a lime plant in China. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns.
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. has a reported capacity of 200,000 t of lime.
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. emits about 131,693 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 30,698 cars. That ranks #2635 among tracked facilities in China.
Wuxue Wanbang Building Materials Co., Ltd. is in China, near coordinates 29.85569, 115.52501.
