Claxton Bay Cement Plant

Claxton Bay Cement Plant is a cement plant in Trinidad and Tobago with a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Trinidad Cement Ltd. It emits about 352,189 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 82,095 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897839.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 1,000,000 t of cement, Claxton Bay Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Trinidad and Tobago (1,000,000 t of cement). 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 352,189 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.

Operator

Operated by Trinidad Cement Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Claxton Bay Cement Plant sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 10.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Paria Fuel Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery · Refinery
• Atlas Methanol Plant · Chemical Plant · 609,094 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 10.35188, -61.46122. View on OpenStreetMap.

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