Sentuo Steel Tema plant

Sentuo Steel Tema plant is a steel plant in Ghana with a reported capacity of 800,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Sentuo Steel Ltd. It emits about 66,315 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 15,458 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 85% below the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567209.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 800,000 t of steel, Sentuo Steel Tema plant è attorno a la mediana di steel plant in Ghana (800,000 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.

What 66,315 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 Sentuo Steel Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Sentuo Steel Tema plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 5.7°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

• Tema Aluminum Smelter & Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 417,947 t CO₂
• Tema aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 89,551 t CO₂
• TOR Tema Refinery · Refinery
• Sentuo Refinery · Refinery · 277,714 t CO₂
• Platon Gas Oil Refnery · Refinery · 8,409 t CO₂
• Tema Metropolis · Aluminium Smelter · 13,263 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 5.67003, 0.01586. View on OpenStreetMap.

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