Cement Plant in Nepal. Approximate location 28.09007, 82.37896.
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Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant is a cement plant in Nepal with a reported capacity of 839,500 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Sonapur Cements Pvt Ltd. By capacity it ranks #10 of 24 cement plants tracked in Nepal. It emits about 424,205 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 98,882 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 40% above the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897592.
Con 839,500 t of cement, Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Nepal (730,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 28% al di sopra di la mediana di cement plant. 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.
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 cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Sonapur Cements Pvt Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 28.1°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #10 largest of 24 cement plants in Nepal by reported capacity.
Coordinates 28.09007, 82.37896. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the 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 10,000 MWh/yr (≈ 3,400 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:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant is a cement plant in Nepal. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 839,500 t of cement.
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant emits about 424,205 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 98,882 cars. That ranks #7 among tracked facilities in Nepal.
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant is in Nepal, near coordinates 28.09007, 82.37896.
Sonapur Cement Bijauri Cement Plant is operated by Sonapur Cements Pvt Ltd.
