Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited — Bangladesh

Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited is a chemical plant in Bangladesh. Its listed capacity is 508,930 t of chemical. Chemical plants produce a wide range of industrial and specialty chemicals, many requiring precise temperature control and sustained heat input for reactions and separations. It is operated by Government of Bangladesh. By capacity it ranks #2 among 3 chemical plants in Bangladesh. It emits about 585,314 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 5.9% of the CO₂e from the 11 facilities in Bangladesh that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 20% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-45257057.

In context: how this facility compares

At 508,930 t of chemical, Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited is around the median chemical plant in Bangladesh (508,930 t of chemical). Subsector: chemicals. As chemical plant, it requires high process heat (typically 100–500°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Chemical plants produce a wide range of industrial and specialty chemicals, many requiring precise temperature control and sustained heat input for reactions and separations.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 585,314 t CO₂e a year looks like

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.

Capacity vs largest chemical plants in Bangladesh

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

Operator

Operated by Government of Bangladesh.

Local climate

Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 22.2°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1242 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× the loss at a 20 °C reference. 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).

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.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 3 chemical plants in Bangladesh by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Eastern Refining Limited Chittagong Refinery · Refinery · 162,594 t CO₂
• BSRM Ltd Mirsarai plant · Steel Plant · 4,449,154 t CO₂
• Abul Khair Steel Sitakunda plant · Steel Plant · 254,428 t CO₂
• KSRM Sitakunda steel plant · Steel Plant · 42,971 t CO₂
• GPH Steel Sitakunda plant · Steel Plant · 333,972 t CO₂
• BSRM Steels Mirsarai plant · Steel Plant · 2,190,353 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 22.23142, 91.82533. View on OpenStreetMap.

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