Abinsk Electric Steel Works

Abinsk Electric Steel Works is a steel plant in Russian Federation with a reported capacity of 1,550,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Abinski Elektrometallurgicheski Zavod LLC. By capacity it ranks #12 of 26 steel plants tracked in Russian Federation. It emits about 217,253 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 50,642 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 74% below the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567015.

En contexte: comment cette installation se compare

À 1,550,000 t of steel, Abinsk Electric Steel Works est autour de la médiane des steel plant en Russian Federation (1,500,000 t of steel). Sous-secteur: iron-and-steel. Comme steel plant, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 800–1500°C) pour ses opérations industrielles essentielles — chaleur qui doit être fournie par des chaudières, fours ou combustion directe, et les pertes par les récipients et tuyauteries non isolés représentent du combustible gaspillé. L'isolation modulaire amovible peut réduire ces pertes de 80–96%, refroidissant les surfaces à ≤45°C, avec des délais d'amortissement souvent inférieurs à 2 ans. Les aciéries brûlent du charbon dans des hauts fourneaux ou utilisent des arcs électriques pour fondre des ferrailles; dans les deux cas, le métal en fusion doit être maintenu au-dessus de 1.500°C et transféré à travers des tuyauteries et récipients chauds étendus.

Comparaison de capacité et d'intensité de CO₂ calculée à partir des données des installations industrielles Climate TRACE; rôle du secteur basé sur la référence d'ingénierie.

What 217,253 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 Russian Federation

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

Operator

Operated by Abinski Elektrometallurgicheski Zavod LLC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Abinsk Electric Steel Works sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 44.9°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #12 largest of 26 steel plants in Russian Federation by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

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• novoroscement Proletary Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,098,135 t CO₂
• Atakaycement Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 142,001 t CO₂
• Verkhnebakansky Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 713,638 t CO₂
• novoroscement Pervomaisky Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 807,117 t CO₂
• Slavyansk Refinery · Refinery · 486,786 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 44.88238, 38.12298. View on OpenStreetMap.

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