National Oil Company Ras Lanuf, Ras Lanuf

National Oil Company Ras Lanuf, Ras Lanuf is a petrochemical in Libya with a reported capacity of 330,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It is operated by National Oil Corp. It emits about 379,925 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 88,561 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 14% below the median petrochemical.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-732015.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 330,000 t of ethylene, National Oil Company Ras Lanuf, Ras Lanuf é em torno de a mediana de petrochemical em Libya (330,000 t of ethylene). Subsetor: petrochemical-steam-cracking. Como petrochemical, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 300–800°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 petroquímicas craquean hidrocarbonetos em temperaturas muito altas para produzir etileno, propileno e outros produtos químicos básicos — um dos processos industriais mais intensivos em calor.

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 379,925 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.

Operator

Operated by National Oil Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

National Oil Company Ras Lanuf, Ras Lanuf sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.5°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• NOC Ras Lanuf Refinery · Refinery
• NOC El-Brega Refinery · Refinery · 53,535 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.47898, 18.56772. View on OpenStreetMap.

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