Food & Beverage in Virgin Islands, U.S.. Approximate location 17.71795, -64.80827.
Food & BeverageVirgin Islands, U.S.CO₂ estimate (modelled)
St. Croix Abattoir is a food & beverage plant in Virgin Islands, U.S.. Its listed capacity is 181,658,926 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 Virgin Islands, U.S.. It emits about 14,805 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE, roughly comparable to the annual emissions of 3.5k passenger cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38492641.
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.
At 181,658,926 USD, St. Croix Abattoir is below the median food & beverage plant in Virgin Islands, U.S. (463,668,335 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 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.
At its reported 15k t CO₂e/yr (Scope 1), St. Croix Abattoir carries no domestic carbon price; food & beverage plants are not a CBAM-covered good, so there is no border-carbon liability. At the EU ETS reference price (€75/t) the emissions carry an indicative carbon value of €1.1M/yr. 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 ≈296 t–740 t/yr, worth €22k–€56k, 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).
Carbon price: EU CBAM €75/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 →
St. Croix Abattoir sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 17.7°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 an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1238 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1176 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 17.71795, -64.80827. 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.
very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.
A first-pass insulation screen suggests about 890 MWh/year of recoverable heat-loss reduction and about 180 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:
Sources: country climate-finance facilities and public development-bank programmes.
St. Croix Abattoir is a food & beverage plant in Virgin Islands, U.S.. 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 page uses about 14,805 t CO₂e/year from the open dataset It ranks #2 among facilities in Virgin Islands, U.S. by estimated CO₂.
St. Croix Abattoir is in Virgin Islands, U.S. at approximately 17.71795, -64.80827.
