Souselas Cement Plant

Souselas Cement Plant is a cement plant in Portugal with a reported capacity of 3,500,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by InterCement Portugal SA. By capacity it ranks #1 of 6 cement plants tracked in Portugal. It emits about 953,806 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 222,332 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 24% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32439040.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 3,500,000 t of cement, Souselas Cement Plant é bem acima de a mediana de cement plant em Portugal (2,000,000 t of cement). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 22% abaixo de a mediana de cement plant. Subsetor: cement. Como cement plant, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 800–1400°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 cimenteiras aquecem calcário a 1.400°C em fornos rotativos — um dos processos industriais mais quentes — e devem controlar a temperatura com precisão em todo o comprimento do forno.

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 953,806 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 cement plants in Portugal

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

Operator

Operated by InterCement Portugal SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Souselas Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 40.3°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 #1 largest of 6 cement plants in Portugal by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Lactogal - Produtos Alimentares, S.A. - Tocha (Ci) · Food & Beverage · 136,557 t CO₂
• Helix - Indústria De Confeções, S.A. · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Acorfato - Industria De Confeccoes S.A · Textiles · 2,714 t CO₂
• Figueira da Foz BEKP Pulp and Paper Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 309,171 t CO₂
• Sumolis Gm - Pombal (Ci) · Food & Beverage · 136,557 t CO₂
• The Navigator Company - Cacia Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 173,570 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 40.28898, -8.41818. View on OpenStreetMap.

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