Steel Plant in Switzerland. Approximate location 47.17283, 7.56332.
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Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant is a steel plant in Switzerland with a reported capacity of 720,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Stahl Gerlafingen AG. By capacity it ranks #1 of 2 steel plants tracked in Switzerland. It emits about 50,453 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 11,761 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 87% below the median steel plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566476.
À 720,000 t of steel, Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant est autour de la médiane des steel plant en Switzerland (720,000 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.
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 steel), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Stahl Gerlafingen AG. All facilities by this operator →
Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.2°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1 largest of 2 steel plants in Switzerland by reported capacity.
Coordinates 47.17283, 7.56332. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant is a steel plant in Switzerland. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant has a reported capacity of 720,000 t of steel.
Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant emits about 50,453 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 11,761 cars. That ranks #14 among tracked facilities in Switzerland.
Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant is in Switzerland, near coordinates 47.17283, 7.56332.
Stahl Gerlafingen steel plant is operated by Stahl Gerlafingen AG.