Korea Building Materials Madong Cement Plant

Korea Building Materials Madong Cement Plant is a cement plant in North Korea with a reported capacity of 400,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). By capacity it ranks #9 of 10 cement plants tracked in North Korea. It emits about 157,196 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 36,642 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 9% above the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42547282.

В контексте: как это предприятие сравнивается

На мощности 400,000 t of cement Korea Building Materials Madong Cement Plant — это ниже медианная cement plant в North Korea (1,439,000 t of cement). 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.

What 157,196 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 North Korea

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

Operator

Operated by Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry (North Korea). All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Korea Building Materials Madong Cement Plant sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate zone (Köppen Dwa), at 38.5°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 #9 largest of 10 cement plants in North Korea by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Korea Building Materials Kyongamsan Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂
• Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 1,291,164 t CO₂
• Ch'ollima Steel Complex steel plant · Steel Plant · 20,343 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunghori Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 49,523 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Sunchon Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,179,824 t CO₂
• Korea Building Materials Puhung Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 565,514 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 38.4629, 125.82869. View on OpenStreetMap.

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