Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant

Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant is a cement plant in North Korea with a reported capacity of 3,500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). By capacity it ranks #1 of 10 cement plants tracked in North Korea. It emits about 1,179,824 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 275,017 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 6% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897681.

W kontekście: jak ta instalacja się porównuje

Przy 3,500,000 t of cement, Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant jest znacznie powyżej medianę cement plant w North Korea (1,439,000 t of cement). Jego CO₂ na jednostkę pojemności wynosi w przybliżeniu 14% poniżej medianę cement plant. Podsektor: cement. Jako cement plant, wymaga intensywnego ciepła procesowego (typowo 800–1400°C) do swoich głównych operacji przemysłowych — ciepła, które musi być dostarczane przez kotły, piece lub spalanie bezpośrednie, a straty przez nieisolowane zbiorniki i rury stanowią zmarnowane paliwo. Modułowa izolacja demontowalna może zmniejszyć te straty o 80–96%, chłodząc powierzchnie do ≤45°C, z zwrotem inwestycji często poniżej 2 lat. Cementownie ogrzewają wapień do 1.400°C w piecach obracających się — jeden z najgorętszych procesów przemysłowych — i muszą precyzyjnie kontrolować temperaturę na całej długości pieca.

Porównanie pojemności i intensywności CO₂ obliczane na podstawie danych instalacji przemysłowych Climate TRACE; rola sektora oparta na odniesieniau inżynierskim.

What 1,179,824 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 North Korea

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

Operator

Operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 39.4°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 #1 largest of 10 cement plants in North Korea by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Pusan-ri Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunghori Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 49,523 t CO₂
• Ch'ollima Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 20,343 t CO₂
• Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,291,164 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Chonnae Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 667,233 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 39.44444, 126.02298. View on OpenStreetMap.

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