Nyumba Ya Akiba Cement Plant

Nyumba Ya Akiba Cement Plant is a cement plant in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the with a reported capacity of 1,300,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Groupe Rawji. By capacity it ranks #2 of 5 cement plants tracked in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the. It emits about 497,633 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 115,998 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 6% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547316.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 1,300,000 t of cement, Nyumba Ya Akiba Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (1,090,000 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 497,633 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 Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

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

Operator

Operated by Groupe Rawji. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Nyumba Ya Akiba Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 5.6°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 5 cement plants in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• PPC Barnet Kimpese Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 453,464 t CO₂
• Lukala Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 100,029 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -5.63121, 14.20497. View on OpenStreetMap.

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