Cement Plant in Egypt. Approximate location 28.41179, 30.96548.
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Beni Mazar Cement Plant is a cement plant in Egypt with a reported capacity of 2,200,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Misr Cement Minya SAE. By capacity it ranks #17 of 26 cement plants tracked in Egypt. It emits about 308,734 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 71,966 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 61% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1896685.
На мощности 2,200,000 t of cement Beni Mazar Cement Plant — это примерно медианная cement plant в Egypt (2,690,000 t of cement). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 61% ниже медианной cement plant. Подсектор: cement. Как cement plant, оно требует высокотемпературного технологического тепла (обычно 800–1400°C) для основных промышленных операций — тепла, которое должно подаваться котлами, печами или прямым сжиганием, и потери через неизолированные сосуды и трубопроводы представляют потраченное впустую топливо. Съёмная модульная теплоизоляция может снизить эти потери на 80–96%, охладив поверхность оборудования до ≤45°C, с окупаемостью часто менее 2 лет. Цементные заводы нагревают известняк до 1400°C во вращающихся печах — один из самых горячих промышленных процессов — и должны точно контролировать температуру по всей длине печи.
Сравнение производительности и интенсивности CO₂ рассчитано на основе данных промышленных объектов Climate TRACE; роль сектора основана на инженерных справочниках.
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.
Reported capacity (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Misr Cement Minya SAE. All facilities by this operator →
Beni Mazar Cement Plant sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 28.4°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #17 largest of 26 cement plants in Egypt by reported capacity.
Coordinates 28.41179, 30.96548. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the fuel side only.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 9,100 MWh/yr (≈ 3,100 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
CBAM. Exporters of cement, steel, aluminium, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity to the EU face the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — cutting embedded emissions (efficiency + insulation) lowers the levy.
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Beni Mazar Cement Plant is a cement plant in Egypt. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Beni Mazar Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 2,200,000 t of cement.
Beni Mazar Cement Plant emits about 308,734 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 71,966 cars. That ranks #49 among tracked facilities in Egypt.
Beni Mazar Cement Plant is in Egypt, near coordinates 28.41179, 30.96548.
Beni Mazar Cement Plant is operated by Misr Cement Minya SAE.
