Lime Plant in China. Approximate location 23.16566, 109.37709.
Lime PlantChinaCO₂ not individually reported
Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory. is a lime plant in China. 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. No facility-measured CO₂ figure is available in the open dataset used here.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38468675.
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
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.
No facility-measured CO₂ is published for Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory.; Climate TRACE provides only a lime plant sector-level estimate, so a precise per-site figure, ranking or carbon cost would be misleading and is not shown. The decarbonization lever is the same regardless: eliminating heat loss on hot equipment (removable insulation, steam & waste-heat recovery) typically cuts 2–5% of fuel-related CO₂, 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).
CO₂: Climate TRACE sector-level estimate (not facility-measured). Estimate the saving for this site →
Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory. sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 23.2°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 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 1282 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.99× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1218 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 23.16566, 109.37709. View on OpenStreetMap. Location shown at industrial-zone / municipality precision (shared source geocode).
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 6,500 MWh/year of recoverable heat-loss reduction and about 2,200 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.
Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory. is a lime plant in China. 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 used here does not include a facility-level CO₂ value for Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory..
Guigang City Qintang District Lion Mountain Port Hui Lime Calcium Powder Factory. is in China at approximately 23.16566, 109.37709.
