Lime Plant in France. Approximate location 48.71, 5.66.
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Fours À Chaux De Sorcy is a lime plant in France with a reported capacity of 637,243 t of lime. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns. By capacity it ranks #3 of 12 lime plants tracked in France. It emits about 341,882 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 79,693 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 19% below the median lime plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38467386.
À 637,243 t of lime, Fours À Chaux De Sorcy est bien au-dessus de la médiane des lime plant en France (499,678 t of lime). Sous-secteur: lime. Comme lime plant, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 600–900°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 chaufourneries calcinent le calcaire dans des fours chauds à 800–900°C, et la chaux vive chaude doit être manipulée dans des récipients isolés pour prévenir la réaction avec l'humidité.
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 lime), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Fours À Chaux De Sorcy sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 48.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #3 largest of 12 lime plants in France by reported capacity.
Coordinates 48.71, 5.66. 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 9,000 MWh/yr (≈ 3,100 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.
Funding. Energy-savings certificate premiums for efficiency works; 6th period from 1 Jan 2026 (+35% obligation, 1050 TWhc/yr).
Obligation. Now CONSUMPTION-based: if avg annual final energy >2.75 GWh over 3 yrs, mandatory regulatory energy audit; first audit for newly-covered sites by 11 Oct 2026. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Fours À Chaux De Sorcy is a lime plant in France. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns.
Fours À Chaux De Sorcy has a reported capacity of 637,243 t of lime.
Fours À Chaux De Sorcy emits about 341,882 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 79,693 cars. That ranks #34 among tracked facilities in France.
Fours À Chaux De Sorcy is in France, near coordinates 48.71, 5.66.
