Chemical Plant in Iran. Approximate location 35.53335, 51.58638.
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Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant is a chemical plant in Iran with a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of chemical. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals. It is operated by Kaveh Glass Industrial Group . By capacity it ranks #7 of 13 chemical plants tracked in Iran. It emits about 330,752 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 77,098 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 100% below the median chemical plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-45257119.
À 1,000,000 t of chemical, Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant est autour de la médiane des chemical plant en Iran (1,000,000 t of chemical). Sous-secteur: chemicals. Comme chemical plant, elle nécessite une chaleur de procédé intensive (typiquement 100–500°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 usines chimiques produisent une large gamme de produits chimiques industriels et spécialisés, beaucoup nécessitant un contrôle précis de la température et un apport de chaleur soutenu pour les réactions et séparations.
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 chemical), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kaveh Glass Industrial Group .
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 35.5°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #7 largest of 13 chemical plants in Iran by reported capacity.
Coordinates 35.53335, 51.58638. View on OpenStreetMap.
A chemical plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: reactors, crackers, distillation columns, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–500 °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.
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 13,000 MWh/yr (≈ 2,600 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.
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant is a chemical plant in Iran. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals.
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant has a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of chemical.
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant emits about 330,752 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 77,098 cars. That ranks #102 among tracked facilities in Iran.
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant is in Iran, near coordinates 35.53335, 51.58638.
Kaveh Sodium Carbonate Plant is operated by Kaveh Glass Industrial Group .
