Steel Plant in Japan. Approximate location 36.5406, 139.99283.
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Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant is a steel plant in Japan with a reported capacity of 800,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #25 of 40 steel plants tracked in Japan. It emits about 46,266 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 10,785 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 89% below the median steel plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566933.
À 800,000 t of steel, Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant est autour de la médiane des steel plant en Japan (973,658 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 Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 36.5°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #25 largest of 40 steel plants in Japan by reported capacity.
Coordinates 36.5406, 139.99283. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant is a steel plant in Japan. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant has a reported capacity of 800,000 t of steel.
Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant emits about 46,266 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 10,785 cars. That ranks #108 among tracked facilities in Japan.
Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant is in Japan, near coordinates 36.5406, 139.99283.
Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya plant is operated by Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd.