Premium Steel Warri plant

Premium Steel Warri plant is a steel plant in Nigeria. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Premium Steel and Mines Ltd.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1567312.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Subsetor: iron-and-steel. Como steel plant, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1500°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 usinas de aço queimam carvão em altos-fornos ou usam arcos elétricos para derreter sucata; em ambos os casos, o metal fundido deve ser mantido acima de 1.500°C e transferido através de tubulações e vasos de calor extensos.

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.

Capacity vs largest steel plants in Nigeria

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

Operator

Operated by Premium Steel and Mines Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Premium Steel Warri plant sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 5.5°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

• NNPC Warri Refinery · Refinery · 76,189 t CO₂
• Edo Modular Refinery · Refinery · 78,986 t CO₂
• OPAC Modular Refinery · Refinery · 43,881 t CO₂
• DMCL Modular Refinery · Refinery · 10,970 t CO₂
• Aradel Modular Refinery · Refinery · 48,269 t CO₂
• Waltersmith Modular Refinery · Refinery · 21,940 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 5.48229, 5.77017. View on OpenStreetMap.

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