Lime Plant in China. Approximate location 37.78685, 113.65804.
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Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. is a lime plant in China with a reported capacity of 240,000 t of lime. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns. By capacity it ranks #1068 of 1,349 lime plants tracked in China. It emits about 158,032 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 36,837 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38467698.
Con 240,000 t of lime, Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. è al di sotto di la mediana di lime plant in China (409,811 t of lime). Sottosettore: lime. Come lime plant, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 600–900°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 di calce calcinano il calcare in forni caldi a 800–900°C, e la calce viva calda deve essere maneggiata in recipienti isolati per prevenire la reazione con l'umidità.
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 lime), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 37.8°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1068 largest of 1349 lime plants in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 37.78685, 113.65804. View on OpenStreetMap.
A lime plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: kiln, preheater, hot-gas ducting, valves & dampers (surface/process temperatures around 200–900 °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.
calcination-heavy like cement; fuel side only.
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 6,300 MWh/yr (≈ 2,100 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.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. is a lime plant in China. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns.
Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. has a reported capacity of 240,000 t of lime.
Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. emits about 158,032 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 36,837 cars. That ranks #2568 among tracked facilities in China.
Shanxi Shimen Building Materials Co.,Ltd. is in China, near coordinates 37.78685, 113.65804.
