Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant

Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant is a cement plant in North Korea with a reported capacity of 1,439,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). By capacity it ranks #3 of 10 cement plants tracked in North Korea. It emits about 565,514 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 131,821 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 9% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547253.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 1,439,000 t of cement, Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant é em torno de a mediana de cement plant em North Korea (1,439,000 t of cement). 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 565,514 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 North Korea

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

Operator

Operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 39.5°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 #3 largest of 10 cement plants in North Korea by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Korea Building Materials Pusan-ri Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,179,824 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunghori Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 49,523 t CO₂
• Ch'ollima Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 20,343 t CO₂
• Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,291,164 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Chonnae Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 667,233 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 39.47278, 126.00645. View on OpenStreetMap.

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