Refinery in El Salvador. Approximate location 13.56718, -89.82771.
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Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery is a refinery in El Salvador with a reported capacity of 22,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It emits about 94,476 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 22,022 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 49% below the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143879.
22,000 BBL per dayで、Puma Energy Acajutla RefineryはEl Salvadorのrefineryの中央値約 22,000 BBL per dayです。 サブセクター：oil-and-gas-refining。 refineryとして、その中核的な産業操業に対して激しいプロセス熱（通常200–600°C）が必要です。この熱はボイラー、炉、または直接燃焼によって供給される必要があり、未断熱容器および配管からの損失は無駄な燃料を表します。モジュール式脱着可能な断熱は、これらの損失を80～96%削減でき、表面を≤45°Cに冷却でき、回収期間は通常2年未満です。 製油所は、エネルギー集約的な蒸留とクラッキングを通じて原油を燃料および石油化学原料に加熱、分留および化学的に変換します。蒸気発生および熱回収に非常に要求されています。
容量およびCO₂強度の比較はClimate TRACEの産業施設データから計算されました。セクターの役割は工学リファレンスに基づいています。
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.
Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 13.6°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Coordinates 13.56718, -89.82771. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °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.
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 31,000 MWh/yr (≈ 6,200 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.
Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery is a refinery in El Salvador. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery has a reported capacity of 22,000 BBL per day.
Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery emits about 94,476 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 22,022 cars. That ranks #3 among tracked facilities in El Salvador.
Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery is in El Salvador, near coordinates 13.56718, -89.82771.
