Lime Plant in Puerto Rico. Approximate location 18.02305, -66.63888.
Lime PlantPuerto RicoCO₂ estimate (modelled)
Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. is a lime plant in Puerto Rico. Its listed capacity is 4,284 t of lime. Lime plants calcine limestone in hot kilns at 800–900°C, and the hot quicklime must be handled in insulated vessels to prevent reaction with moisture. It emits about 2,821 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE, roughly comparable to the annual emissions of 658 passenger cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38467370.
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.
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At 4,284 t of lime, Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. is around the median lime plant in Puerto Rico (4,284 t of lime). Subsector: lime. As lime plant, it requires high process heat (typically 600–900°C) 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 80–96%, surface-cooling equipment to ≤45°C, with payback often under 2 years. Lime plants calcine limestone in hot kilns at 800–900°C, and the hot quicklime must be handled in insulated vessels to prevent reaction with moisture.
Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.
This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:
Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.
At its reported 3k t CO₂e/yr (Scope 1), Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. carries no domestic carbon price; lime plants are not a CBAM-covered good, so there is no border-carbon liability. At the EU ETS reference price (€75/t) the emissions carry an indicative carbon value of €213k/yr. The fastest decarbonization lever is energy efficiency: eliminating heat loss on hot equipment (removable insulation, steam & waste-heat recovery) typically cuts 2–5% of fuel-related CO₂ — here ≈56 t–141 t/yr, worth €4k–€11k, 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 →
Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 18.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1260 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.97× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1197 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 Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Coordinates 18.02305, -66.63888. View on OpenStreetMap.
For a lime plant, the main modular-insulation targets are kiln, preheater, hot-gas ducting, valves & dampers. Typical hot-surface ranges used for screening: 200–900 °C.
calcination-heavy like cement; fuel side only.
A first-pass insulation screen suggests about 4,000 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:
Sources: country climate-finance facilities and public development-bank programmes.
Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. is a lime plant in Puerto Rico. Lime plants calcine limestone in hot kilns at 800–900°C, and the hot quicklime must be handled in insulated vessels to prevent reaction with moisture.
The open dataset lists 4,284 t of lime of capacity for Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc..
The page uses about 2,821 t CO₂e/year from the open dataset It ranks #6 among facilities in Puerto Rico by estimated CO₂.
Cemex De Puerto Rico, Inc. is in Puerto Rico at approximately 18.02305, -66.63888.
