Shakambhari Ispat and Power Purulia Steel Plant

Shakambhari Ispat and Power Purulia Steel Plant is a steel plant in India with a reported capacity of 531,000 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). By capacity it ranks #38 of 61 steel plants tracked in India. It emits about 836,769 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 195,051 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 192% above the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42741826.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 531,000 t of steel, Shakambhari Ispat and Power Purulia Steel Plant é abaixo de a mediana de steel plant em India (950,000 t of steel). 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.

What 836,769 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 steel plants in India

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

Local climate

Shakambhari Ispat and Power Purulia Steel Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 23.6°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #38 largest of 61 steel plants in India by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Shyam Steel Raghunathpur Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 321,085 t CO₂
• SAIL IISCO steel plant · Steel Plant · 4,058,917 t CO₂
• Shyam Steel Mejia Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 198,555 t CO₂
• Shyam Metalics Jamuria Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 1,621,492 t CO₂
• SAIL Durgapur steel plant · Steel Plant · 3,170,744 t CO₂
• SAIL Alloy Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 31,690 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 23.61427, 86.78965. View on OpenStreetMap.

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