New Braunfels Balcones Cement Plant

New Braunfels Balcones Cement Plant is a cement plant in United States with a reported capacity of 2,000,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by CEMEX Inc. By capacity it ranks #16 of 86 cement plants tracked in United States. It emits about 673,338 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 156,955 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 7% below the median cement plant.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897977.

В контексте: как это предприятие сравнивается

На мощности 2,000,000 t of cement New Braunfels Balcones Cement Plant — это значительно выше медианная cement plant в United States (1,100,000 t of cement). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 12% выше 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.

What 673,338 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 United States

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

Operator

Operated by CEMEX Inc. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

New Braunfels Balcones Cement Plant sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 29.7°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 #16 largest of 86 cement plants in United States by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

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• Comal Creek Ltd · Food & Beverage · 4,154 t CO₂
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Location

Coordinates 29.67364, -98.18433. View on OpenStreetMap.

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