Cement Plant in Tunisia. Approximate location 37.25863, 9.85306.
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Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant is a cement plant in Tunisia with a reported capacity of 1,800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Jbel Oust Cement Co. By capacity it ranks #4 of 7 cement plants tracked in Tunisia. It emits about 496,452 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 115,723 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 23% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32439168.
À 1,800,000 t of cement, Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant est autour de la médiane des cement plant en Tunisia (1,800,000 t of cement). Son CO₂ par unité de capacité est approximativement 16% en dessous de la médiane des cement plant. Sous-secteur: cement. Comme cement plant, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 800–1400°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 cimenteries chauffent le calcaire à 1.400°C dans des fours rotatifs — l'un des processus industriels les plus chauds — et doivent contrôler la température avec précision sur toute la longueur du four.
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.
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 cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Jbel Oust Cement Co. All facilities by this operator →
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 37.3°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #4 largest of 7 cement plants in Tunisia by reported capacity.
Coordinates 37.25863, 9.85306. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the 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 11,000 MWh/yr (≈ 3,600 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.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant is a cement plant in Tunisia. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 1,800,000 t of cement.
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant emits about 496,452 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 115,723 cars. That ranks #5 among tracked facilities in Tunisia.
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant is in Tunisia, near coordinates 37.25863, 9.85306.
Bir Mcherga Gare Cement Plant is operated by Jbel Oust Cement Co.
