Steel Plant in Brazil. Approximate location -4.87448, -47.40714.
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AVB Acailandia steel plant is a steel plant in Brazil. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels. It is operated by Aco Verde do Brasil SA. It emits about 940,896 t CO2e a year from Climate TRACE, roughly comparable to the annual emissions of 219k passenger cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO2e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566458.
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
Same Climate TRACE subsector; closest non-placeholder modelled CO2e values. Russia and Belarus excluded.
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
Subsector: iron-and-steel. As steel plant, it requires high process heat (typically 8001500C) for its core industrial operations heat that must be supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion, and losses through uninsulated vessels and piping represent wasted fuel. Removable modular insulation can cut those losses by 8096%, surface-cooling equipment to 45C, with payback often under 2 years. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels.
Capacity & CO2-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.
This facility's reported annual CO2e in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:
Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.
At its reported 941k t CO2e/yr (Scope 1), AVB Acailandia steel plant carries no domestic carbon price and as a CBAM-covered product, its 941k t at the EU CBAM rate (75/t) is 70.9M/yr of exposure on EU-bound exports. CBAM share rises from 2.5% (2026) to 100% by 2034. The fastest decarbonization lever is energy efficiency: eliminating heat loss on hot equipment (removable insulation, steam & waste-heat recovery) typically cuts 25% of fuel-related CO2 here 19k t47k t/yr, worth 1.4M3.5M, with payback up to 2 years. No domestic carbon price but cement, steel, aluminium, fertilizer and hydrogen exported to the EU face CBAM at 75/t (rising to 100% by 2034).
Carbon price: EU CBAM 75/t EU ETS 79/t, July 2, 2026, refreshed live via Carbon Hub. CO2: Climate TRACE. Efficiency range: US DOE / ASTM C680 (method). Indicative carbon value, not the cash bill free allocation applies; not compliance advice. Estimate the saving for this site
Operated by Aco Verde do Brasil SA.
AVB Acailandia steel plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Koppen Aw), at 4.9°S in the southern hemisphere.
Koppen zone: Koppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The local climate sets how fast unprotected steel, protective coatings and the insulation on hot process equipment degrade at this site. It sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1248 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.96× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1186 W/m² of that. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Koppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Coordinates -4.87448, -47.40714. View on OpenStreetMap.
For a steel plant, the main modular-insulation targets are reheat & annealing furnaces, ladles, hot-blast stoves, steam & gas ducting. Typical hot-surface ranges used for screening: 2001,200 C C.
A first-pass insulation screen suggests about 4,200 MWh/year of recoverable heat-loss reduction and about 1,400 t CO2e/year of avoided emissions. Screening estimate scaled from installed process-heat projects and surface-temperature reduction data.
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Screening calculation from facility class, capacity and open emissions/energy context. Engineering survey required before procurement.
Start with a thermal survey of valves, flanges, doors and bends. Removable modular insulation keeps maintenance access open while lowering exposed-surface temperature and wasted heat.
For energy-efficiency projects around process heat, likely external funding channels include:
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.
Sources: country climate-finance facilities and public development-bank programmes.
AVB Acailandia steel plant is a steel plant in Brazil. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels.
The page uses about 940,896 t CO2e/year from the open dataset It ranks #36 among facilities in Brazil by reported CO2.
AVB Acailandia steel plant is in Brazil at approximately -4.87448, -47.40714.
The operator recorded in the open dataset is Aco Verde do Brasil SA.
