Tata Steel Kalinganagar steel plant

Tata Steel Kalinganagar steel plant is a steel plant in India with a reported capacity of 5,513,661 t of steel. It produces crude steel from iron ore (blast furnace) or scrap (electric arc furnace). It is operated by Tata Steel Ltd. By capacity it ranks #8 of 61 steel plants tracked in India. It emits about 8,354,552 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,947,448 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 180% above the median steel plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1566854.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 5,513,661 t of steel, Tata Steel Kalinganagar steel plant é bem acima 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 8,354,552 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).

Operator

Operated by Tata Steel Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Tata Steel Kalinganagar steel plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 21.0°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 #8 largest of 61 steel plants in India by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Mesco Steel Kalinganagar plant · Steel Plant · 2,156,948 t CO₂
• Neelachal Ispat Nigam steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,448,006 t CO₂
• Jindal Stainless Jajpur steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,040,622 t CO₂
• Yazdani Steel and Power Kalinganagar steel plant · Steel Plant · 173,342 t CO₂
• Rungta Mines Dhenkanal steel plant · Steel Plant · 324,622 t CO₂
• Tata Steel BSL Meramandali steel plant · Steel Plant · 8,257,185 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 20.96839, 86.01112. View on OpenStreetMap.

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