Cartagena Cement Plant

Cartagena Cement Plant is a cement plant in Colombia with a reported capacity of 2,000,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Cementos Argos SA. By capacity it ranks #4 of 14 cement plants tracked in Colombia. It emits about 467,462 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 108,966 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 35% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1896568.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 2,000,000 t of cement, Cartagena Cement Plant é bem acima de a mediana de cement plant em Colombia (1,095,000 t of cement). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 25% abaixo de a mediana de cement plant. Subsetor: cement. Como cement plant, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1400°C) para suas operações industriais centrais — calor que deve ser fornecido por caldeiras, fornos ou combustão direta, e as perdas através de vasos e tubulações não isolados representam combustível desperdiçado. O isolamento modular removível pode reduzir essas perdas em 80–96%, esfriando superfícies a ≤45°C, com payback geralmente inferior a 2 anos. As cimenteiras aquecem calcário a 1.400°C em fornos rotativos — um dos processos industriais mais quentes — e devem controlar a temperatura com precisão em todo o comprimento do forno.

Comparação de capacidade e intensidade de CO₂ calculada a partir dos dados de instalações industriais Climate TRACE; função do setor baseada em referência de engenharia.

What 467,462 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest cement plants in Colombia

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

Operator

Operated by Cementos Argos SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Cartagena Cement Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 10.3°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #4 largest of 14 cement plants in Colombia by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Ecopetrol Cartagena Refinery · Refinery · 2,190,934 t CO₂
• COL-Cartagena de Indias_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 389,944 t CO₂
• Tolu Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 178,740 t CO₂
• Cementos del Oriente Sabanagrande Plant · Cement Plant · 124,028 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 10.33422, -75.50019. View on OpenStreetMap.

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