Reliance Industries Dahej, Gandhar, Gujarat — India

Reliance Industries Dahej, Gandhar, Gujarat is a petrochemical plant in India. Its listed capacity is 420,000 t of ethylene. Petrochemical plants crack hydrocarbons at very high temperatures to produce ethylene, propylene and other building-block chemicals — one of the most heat-intensive industrial processes. It is operated by Reliance Industries Ltd. By capacity it ranks #4 among 5 petrochemical plants in India. It emits about 546,341 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.11% of the CO₂e from the 297 facilities in India that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-731943.

In context: how this facility compares

At 420,000 t of ethylene, Reliance Industries Dahej, Gandhar, Gujarat is below the median petrochemical plant in India (700,000 t of ethylene). Subsector: petrochemical-steam-cracking. As petrochemical plant, it requires high process heat (typically 300–800°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Petrochemical plants crack hydrocarbons at very high temperatures to produce ethylene, propylene and other building-block chemicals — one of the most heat-intensive industrial processes.

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

What 546,341 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 petrochemical plants in India

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

Operator

Operated by Reliance Industries Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Reliance Industries Dahej, Gandhar, Gujarat sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 21.7°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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1226 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.94× 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 #4 largest of 5 petrochemical plants in India by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• ONGC Petro Additions Limited (OPaL), Dahej, Gujarat · Petrochemical · 1,909,265 t CO₂
• IND-Bharuch_methanol · Chemical Plant · 86,456 t CO₂
• Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Bharuch Complex · Chemical Plant · 1,107,657 t CO₂
• Reliance Industries Hazira, Hazira, Gujarat · Petrochemical · 1,040,650 t CO₂
• Hazira Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 5,805,563 t CO₂
• ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel Hazira Plant · Steel Plant · 15,609,806 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 21.68402, 72.5684. View on OpenStreetMap.

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