India Cements Wadapally Cement Plant

India Cements Wadapally Cement Plant is a cement plant in India with a reported capacity of 2,500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by India Cements Ltd. By capacity it ranks #81 of 160 cement plants tracked in India. It emits about 747,686 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 174,286 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 17% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438546.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 2,500,000 t of cement, India Cements Wadapally Cement Plant é em torno de a mediana de cement plant em India (2,500,000 t of cement). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 21% 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 747,686 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 India

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

Operator

Operated by India Cements Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

India Cements Wadapally Cement Plant sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 16.7°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 #81 largest of 160 cement plants in India by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Penna Cement Industries Ganeshpahad Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 554,706 t CO₂
• Deccan Cements Wadappally Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 722,485 t CO₂
• Andhra Cements Dachepalli Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 481,942 t CO₂
• Parasakti Cement Goli Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 572,345 t CO₂
• NCL Industries Nalgonda Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,399,965 t CO₂
• Bhavya Cements Guntur Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 529,077 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 16.696, 79.64847. View on OpenStreetMap.

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