San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant

San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant is a cement plant in Nicaragua with a reported capacity of 420,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by CEMEX SAB de CV. It emits about 93,400 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 21,772 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 38% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438962.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 420,000 t of cement, San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Nicaragua (420,000 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 93,400 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 CEMEX SAB de CV. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

San Rafael del Sur Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 11.9°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Annic Ii S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
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• Puma Energy Managua Refinery · Refinery · 85,888 t CO₂
• Sharon Nicaragua S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
• Textiles Youmkwang S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂
• Grupo Alfatech, S.A. · Textiles · 3,282 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 11.86067, -86.42416. View on OpenStreetMap.

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