Chemical Plant in United States. Approximate location 47.08767, -102.9482.
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Marathon Petroleum Corporation is a chemical plant in United States with a reported capacity of 1 unitless. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals. By capacity it ranks #270 of 453 chemical plants tracked in United States. It emits about 52,439 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 12,224 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 4363% above the median chemical plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3674678.
Com 1 unitless, Marathon Petroleum Corporation é em torno de a mediana de chemical plant em United States (1 unitless). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 9% abaixo de a mediana de chemical plant. Subsetor: other-chemicals. Como chemical plant, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 100–500°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 plantas químicas produzem uma ampla gama de produtos químicos industriais e especializados, muitos requerendo controle preciso de temperatura e entrada de calor sustentada para reações e separações.
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.
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.
Reported capacity (t of chemical), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Marathon Petroleum Corporation sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 47.1°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #270 largest of 453 chemical plants in United States by reported capacity.
Coordinates 47.08767, -102.9482. View on OpenStreetMap.
A chemical plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: reactors, crackers, distillation columns, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–500 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 9,400 MWh/yr (≈ 1,900 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Funding. Investment tax credit up to 30% of qualified investment incl. industrial decarbonization; open to small/medium/large manufacturers.
Obligation. None at federal level (voluntary). Some states have their own programs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Marathon Petroleum Corporation is a chemical plant in United States. It manufactures industrial and specialty chemicals.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation has a reported capacity of 1 unitless.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation emits about 52,439 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 12,224 cars. That ranks #994 among tracked facilities in United States.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation is in United States, near coordinates 47.08767, -102.9482.
