Korea Building Materials Ryongdam Cement Plant

Korea Building Materials Ryongdam Cement Plant is a cement plant in North Korea with a reported capacity of 1,439,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). By capacity it ranks #4 of 10 cement plants tracked in North Korea. It emits about 565,514 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 131,821 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 9% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547347.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 1,439,000 t of cement, Korea Building Materials Ryongdam Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in North Korea (1,439,000 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 565,514 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 North Korea

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

Operator

Operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Korea Building Materials Ryongdam Cement Plant sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 39.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #4 largest of 10 cement plants in North Korea by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Korea Building Materials Chonnae Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 667,233 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,179,824 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Pusan-ri Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunghori Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 49,523 t CO₂
• Ch'ollima Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 20,343 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 39.35984, 127.2267. View on OpenStreetMap.

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