La Calera Cement Plant

La Calera Cement Plant is a cement plant in Chile with a reported capacity of 1,100,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Melon SA. By capacity it ranks #1 of 5 cement plants tracked in Chile. It emits about 380,474 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 88,689 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32437360.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 1,100,000 t of cement, La Calera Cement Plant é bem acima de a mediana de cement plant em Chile (750,000 t of cement). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 33% acima 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 380,474 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 Chile

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

Operator

Operated by Melon SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

La Calera Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 32.8°S in the southern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 5 cement plants in Chile by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• ENAP Concon Refinery · Refinery · 1,150,668 t CO₂
• Cerro Blanco Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 273,974 t CO₂
• AZA Colina steel plant · Steel Plant · 25,308 t CO₂
• New Commerce Ltda · Textiles · 547 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -32.79061, -71.1983. View on OpenStreetMap.

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