Refinery in China. Approximate location 45.57754, 84.99347.
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PetroChina Karamay Refinery is a refinery in China with a reported capacity of 80,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by PetroChina Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #82 of 148 oil refineries tracked in China. It emits about 994,174 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 231,742 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 47% above the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144205.
На мощности 80,000 BBL per day PetroChina Karamay Refinery — это примерно медианная refinery в China (95,000 BBL per day). Его выброс CO₂ на единицу мощности примерно на 51% выше медианной refinery. Подсектор: oil-and-gas-refining. Как refinery, оно требует высокотемпературного технологического тепла (обычно 200–600°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. Нефтеперерабатывающие заводы нагревают, фракционируют и химически преобразуют сырую нефть в топливо и нефтехимическое сырьё путём энергоёмкой дистилляции и крекинга — чрезвычайно требовательны к генерации пара и рекуперации тепла.
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 (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PetroChina Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →
PetroChina Karamay Refinery sits in a cold desert climate zone (Köppen BWk), at 45.6°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #82 largest of 148 oil refineries in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 45.57754, 84.99347. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °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.
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 43,000 MWh/yr (≈ 8,700 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.
PetroChina Karamay Refinery is a refinery in China. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
PetroChina Karamay Refinery has a reported capacity of 80,000 BBL per day.
PetroChina Karamay Refinery emits about 994,174 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 231,742 cars. That ranks #625 among tracked facilities in China.
PetroChina Karamay Refinery is in China, near coordinates 45.57754, 84.99347.
PetroChina Karamay Refinery is operated by PetroChina Co Ltd.
