Ube Industries Ube Cement Plant

Ube Industries Ube Cement Plant is a cement plant in Japan with a reported capacity of 1,800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp. By capacity it ranks #15 of 27 cement plants tracked in Japan. It emits about 956,906 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 223,055 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 48% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438816.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 1,800,000 t of cement, Ube Industries Ube Cement Plant è attorno a la mediana di cement plant in Japan (1,890,000 t of cement). Il suo CO₂ per unità di capacità è approssimativamente 36% 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.

What 956,906 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 Japan

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

Operator

Operated by Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Ube Industries Ube Cement Plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 33.9°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #15 largest of 27 cement plants in Japan by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• JPN-Ube_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 174,716 t CO₂
• Kyoei Steel Yamaguchi Division (Yamaguchi) · Steel Plant · 33,254 t CO₂
• Ube Industries Isa Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,793,454 t CO₂
• Mitsubishi Materials Kanda Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 3,022,664 t CO₂
• Aso Cement Kanda Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,040,172 t CO₂
• Ube Industries Kanda Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 592,454 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 33.9471, 131.22897. View on OpenStreetMap.

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