Nilachal Iron & Power Gamharia Steel Plant — India

Nilachal Iron & Power Gamharia Steel Plant is a steel plant in India. Its listed capacity is 99,000 t of steel. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500°C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels. By capacity it ranks #48 among 49 steel plants in India. It emits about 156,008 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.03% of the CO₂e from the 297 facilities in India that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 70% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42741838.

In context: how this facility compares

At 99,000 t of steel, Nilachal Iron & Power Gamharia Steel Plant is below the median steel plant in India (770,000 t of steel). Subsector: iron-and-steel. As steel plant, it requires high process heat (typically 800–1500°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500°C 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.

What 156,008 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 steel plants in India

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

Parent company

NIlachal Iron & Power Ltd Global Energy Monitor
Parent company per Global Energy Monitor; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.

Local climate

Nilachal Iron & Power Gamharia Steel Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 22.9°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 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 1236 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 #48 largest of 49 steel plants in India by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Tata Steel Long Products Gamharia steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,773,397 t CO₂
• Tata Steel Jamshedpur steel plant · Steel Plant · 16,653,502 t CO₂
• Rungta Mines Chaliyama steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,096,782 t CO₂
• ACC Chaibasa Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 359,389 t CO₂
• Muri Alumina Plant · Aluminium Smelter · 1,201,597 t CO₂
• Electrosteel Bokaro steel plant · Steel Plant · 2,260,242 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 22.8748, 86.0641. View on OpenStreetMap.

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