Rungta Mines Karakhendra Steel Plant

Rungta Mines Karakhendra Steel Plant is a steel plant in India. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace).

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-48306442.

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 India

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

Local climate

Rungta Mines Karakhendra Steel Plant sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 22.1°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

• Orissa Sponge Iron and Steel plant · Steel Plant · 159,160 t CO₂
• ACC Chaibasa Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 359,389 t CO₂
• SAIL Rourkela steel plant · Steel Plant · 5,992,099 t CO₂
• Jai Balaji Jyoti Steels Sundargarh plant · Steel Plant · 144,977 t CO₂
• Adhunik Metaliks Kuanrmunda steel plant · Steel Plant · 804,997 t CO₂
• Rungta Mines Chaliyama steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,096,782 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 22.14017, 85.41462. View on OpenStreetMap.

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