Cement Plant in Peru. Approximate location -11.37603, -75.77927.
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Condorocha Cement Plant is a cement plant in Peru with a reported capacity of 2,800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Unacem Perú SA. By capacity it ranks #4 of 7 cement plants tracked in Peru. It emits about 746,867 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 174,095 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 26% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32439008.
На мощности 2,800,000 t of cement Condorocha Cement Plant — это примерно медианная cement plant в Peru (2,800,000 t of cement). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 19% 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 Unacem Perú SA. All facilities by this operator →
Condorocha Cement Plant sits in a polar tundra climate zone (Köppen ET), at 11.4°S in the southern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #4 largest of 7 cement plants in Peru by reported capacity.
Coordinates -11.37603, -75.77927. 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 13,000 MWh/yr (≈ 4,300 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.
Condorocha Cement Plant is a cement plant in Peru. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Condorocha Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 2,800,000 t of cement.
Condorocha Cement Plant emits about 746,867 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 174,095 cars. That ranks #4 among tracked facilities in Peru.
Condorocha Cement Plant is in Peru, near coordinates -11.37603, -75.77927.
Condorocha Cement Plant is operated by Unacem Perú SA.
