Gmunden Cement Plant

Gmunden Cement Plant is a cement plant in Austria with a reported capacity of 800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Rohrdorfer Zement GmbH. By capacity it ranks #3 of 8 cement plants tracked in Austria. It emits about 286,642 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 66,816 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437244.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 800,000 t of cement, Gmunden Cement Plant è ben al di sopra di la mediana di cement plant in Austria (625,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 7% 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 286,642 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 Austria

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

Operator

Operated by Rohrdorfer Zement GmbH. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Gmunden Cement Plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.9°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 #3 largest of 8 cement plants in Austria by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Laakirchen Papier AG Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 151,083 t CO₂
• UPM-Kymmene Steyrermuhl Austria Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 151,083 t CO₂
• Kirchdorfer Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 149,882 t CO₂
• Austria · Chemical Plant · 60,282 t CO₂
• Heratex (#) · Textiles · 9,238 t CO₂
• Huber · Textiles · 9,238 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 47.9226, 13.77784. View on OpenStreetMap.

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