Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant

Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant is a cement plant in India with a reported capacity of 2,100,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Chettinad Cement Corporation Pvt Ltd. By capacity it ranks #89 of 160 cement plants tracked in India. It emits about 940,118 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 219,142 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 24% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547380.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 2,100,000 t of cement, Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in India (2,500,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 19% al di sopra di la mediana di cement plant. Sottosettore: cement. Come cement plant, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1400°C) per le sue operazioni industriali essenziali — calore che deve essere fornito da caldaie, forni o combustione diretta, e le perdite attraverso recipienti e tubazioni non isolati rappresentano carburante sprecato. L'isolamento modulare removibile può ridurre queste perdite dell'80–96%, raffreddando superfici a ≤45°C, con payback spesso inferiore a 2 anni. Le cementerie riscaldano il calcare a 1.400°C in forni rotativi — uno dei processi industriali più caldi — e devono controllare la temperatura con precisione lungo l'intera lunghezza del forno.

Confronto di capacità e intensità di CO₂ calcolato dai dati delle strutture industriali Climate TRACE; ruolo del settore basato su riferimento ingegneristico.

What 940,118 t CO₂e a year looks like

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.

Capacity vs largest cement plants in India

Reported capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Chettinad Cement Corporation Pvt Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Chettinad Cement Dachepalli Cement Plant sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 16.5°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #89 largest of 160 cement plants in India by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Shree Cement Guntur Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 867,800 t CO₂
• Andhra Cements Dachepalli Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 481,942 t CO₂
• Bhavya Cements Guntur Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 529,077 t CO₂
• Sri Chakra Cements Guntur Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 106,448 t CO₂
• Deccan Cements Wadappally Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 722,485 t CO₂
• NCL Industries Nalgonda Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,399,965 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 16.5445, 79.75873. View on OpenStreetMap.

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