Steel Plant in Japan. Approximate location 35.69877, 139.96381.
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Godo Steel Funabashi Works is a steel plant in Japan with a reported capacity of 700,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Godo Steel Ltd. By capacity it ranks #28 of 40 steel plants tracked in Japan. It emits about 40,483 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 9,437 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-1566938.
Con 700,000 t of steel, Godo Steel Funabashi Works è al di sotto di la mediana di steel plant in Japan (973,658 t of steel). Sottosettore: iron-and-steel. Come steel plant, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1500°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. Gli impianti siderurgici bruciano carbone in altiforni o utilizzano archi elettrici per fondere rottami; in entrambi i casi, il metallo fuso deve essere mantenuto sopra i 1.500°C e trasferito attraverso estesi tubi e recipienti caldi.
Confronto di capacità e intensità di CO₂ calcolato dai dati delle strutture industriali Climate TRACE; ruolo del settore basato su riferimento ingegneristico.
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 Godo Steel Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Godo Steel Funabashi Works sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 35.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #28 largest of 40 steel plants in Japan by reported capacity.
Coordinates 35.69877, 139.96381. View on OpenStreetMap.
A steel plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: reheat & annealing furnaces, ladles, hot-blast stoves, steam & gas ducting (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,200 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 3,600 MWh/yr (≈ 1,200 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Funding. Subsidies to cut upfront cost of energy-saving equipment for industry/commercial; some tied to 'specified business operator' status + S/A benchmark class.
Obligation. Factories/operators with large energy use are designated 'specified business operators': must appoint energy managers, report, and file mid-to-long-term efficiency plans. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Godo Steel Funabashi Works is a steel plant in Japan. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).
Godo Steel Funabashi Works has a reported capacity of 700,000 t of steel.
Godo Steel Funabashi Works emits about 40,483 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 9,437 cars. That ranks #112 among tracked facilities in Japan.
Godo Steel Funabashi Works is in Japan, near coordinates 35.69877, 139.96381.
Godo Steel Funabashi Works is operated by Godo Steel Ltd.
