Cement Plant in Germany. Approximate location 51.85762, 8.03065.
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Ennigerloh Cement Plant is a cement plant in Germany with a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Heidelberg Materials AG. By capacity it ranks #18 of 32 cement plants tracked in Germany. It emits about 193,422 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 45,087 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 46% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32438317.
На мощности 1,000,000 t of cement Ennigerloh Cement Plant — это примерно медианная cement plant в Germany (1,000,000 t of cement). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 39% 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 Heidelberg Materials AG. All facilities by this operator →
Ennigerloh Cement Plant sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 51.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #18 largest of 32 cement plants in Germany by reported capacity.
Coordinates 51.85762, 8.03065. 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 8,200 MWh/yr (≈ 2,800 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.
Funding. Grant 20-60% depending on module and company size; Modul 4 = energy/resource optimization of plants & processes (insulation fits). Foerderwettbewerb round budget ~EUR 60M.
Obligation. Mandatory energy audit if avg final energy 2.77-23.6 GWh/yr; certified EnMS/EMS if >23.6 GWh/yr; implementation plans for economically viable measures within 3 months of audit. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Ennigerloh Cement Plant is a cement plant in Germany. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Ennigerloh Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of cement.
Ennigerloh Cement Plant emits about 193,422 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 45,087 cars. That ranks #71 among tracked facilities in Germany.
Ennigerloh Cement Plant is in Germany, near coordinates 51.85762, 8.03065.
Ennigerloh Cement Plant is operated by Heidelberg Materials AG.
