Food & Beverage in Czechia. Approximate location 49.95909, 17.86916.
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Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava is a food & beverage plant in Czechia with a reported capacity of 1,096,474 USD. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously; heat loss from uninsulated piping and vessels directly reduces throughput and efficiency. By capacity it ranks #2 among 2 food & beverage plants in Czechia. It emits about 977 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE, roughly comparable to the annual emissions of 228 passenger cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38480301.
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.
At 1,096,474 USD, Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava is below the median food & beverage plant in Czechia (2,129,481,764 USD). Subsector: food-beverage-tobacco. As food & beverage plant, it requires high process heat (typically 80–200°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. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously; heat loss from uninsulated piping and vessels directly reduces throughput and efficiency.
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 977 t CO₂e/yr (Scope 1), Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava carries €78k/yr of carbon at the full EU ETS price (€79/t CO₂). Free allocation phases out to 2034 (Reg. (EU) 2023/956), so today's bill is lower and rising toward this full-price figure. 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 ≈20 t–49 t/yr, worth €2k–€4k, with payback up to 2 years.
Carbon price: EU ETS €79/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 →
Reported capacity (USD), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 50.0°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 a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1420 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.09× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1349 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.
The #2 largest of 2 food & beverage plants in Czechia by reported capacity.
Coordinates 49.95909, 17.86916. View on OpenStreetMap.
For a food & beverage plant, the main modular-insulation targets are cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves. Typical hot-surface ranges used for screening: 70–200 °C °C.
very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.
A first-pass insulation screen suggests about 600 MWh/year of recoverable heat-loss reduction and about 120 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.
Obligation
This facility is inside the EU. For thermal equipment, insulation upgrades can support ETS exposure reduction and energy-efficiency compliance.
Sources: EU ETS, CBAM and national energy-efficiency schemes.
Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava is a food & beverage plant in Czechia. Food & beverage plants use boilers, cookers, pasteurisers and dryers that run continuously; heat loss from uninsulated piping and vessels directly reduces throughput and efficiency.
The open dataset reports 1,096,474 USD of capacity for Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava.
The page uses about 977 t CO₂e/year from the open dataset It ranks #16 among facilities in Czechia by reported CO₂.
Moravskoslezské Cukrovary, A.S. O.Z. Opava is in Czechia at approximately 49.95909, 17.86916.
