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Productos La Hortaliza

Food & Beverage in Puerto Rico. Approximate location 18.29572, -67.1426.

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Productos La Hortaliza is a food & beverage plant in Puerto Rico with a reported capacity of 510,909,091 USD. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers. By capacity it ranks #67 of 72 food & beverage plants tracked in Puerto Rico. It emits about 41,472 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 9,667 cars.

41,472t CO₂e / yr (Climate TRACE)
#70CO₂ rank in Puerto Rico

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38491098.

Bağlamda: bu tesis nasıl karşılaştırılır

510,909,091 USD'de, Productos La Hortaliza Puerto Rico'daki food & beverage plant'lerin medyanı yaklaşık 510,909,091 USD'dir. Alt sektör: food-beverage-tobacco. food & beverage plant olarak, temel endüstriyel işlemleri için yoğun proses ısısı (tipik olarak 80–200°C) gerektirir — kazanlar, fırınlar veya doğrudan yanma ile sağlanması gereken ısı, ve izolasyon yapılmamış kaplar ve boruların kayıpları harcanan yakıtı temsil eder. Modüler çıkarılabilir yalıtım bu kayıpları %80–96 oranında azaltabilir, yüzeyleri ≤45°C'ye soğutabilir, geri ödeme süresi genellikle 2 yıldan azdır. Gıda ve içecek fabrikaları, sürekli çalışan kazanlar, pişiriciler, pastörizatörler ve kurutucular kullanır; izolasyon yapılmamış borulardan ve kaplardan ısı kaybı doğrudan çıktı ve verimliliği azaltır.

Kapasite ve CO₂ yoğunluğu karşılaştırması Climate TRACE endüstriyel tesis verilerinden hesaplanmıştır; sektör rolü mühendislik referansına dayanmaktadır.

What 41,472 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

9,667cars driven for a year
5,408homes' annual energy use
691,200tree seedlings grown 10 years

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest food & beverage plants in Puerto Rico

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

Local climate

Productos La Hortaliza sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 18.3°N in the northern hemisphere.

~26°Ctypical annual mean
~28°Ctypical warm-season
Tropical monsoon: warm all year, with distinct wet and dry seasons

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #67 largest of 72 food & beverage plants in Puerto Rico by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

Location

Coordinates 18.29572, -67.1426. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A food & beverage plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: cookers & kettles, pasteurisers, CIP hot-water sets, dryers, steam lines, tanks, valves (surface/process temperatures around 70–200 °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.

very wide by site size; many bare low-temp surfaces (CIP, steam, pasteurisation) - often toward upper end.

Indicative recoverable energy

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 7,000 MWh/yr (≈ 1,400 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.

Safety & the no-regret first step

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.

External climate finance your country can access

Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:

Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What type of facility is Productos La Hortaliza?

Productos La Hortaliza is a food & beverage plant in Puerto Rico. It processes food, beverages or tobacco — typically with boilers, cookers and dryers.

What is the capacity of Productos La Hortaliza?

Productos La Hortaliza has a reported capacity of 510,909,091 USD.

How much CO₂ does Productos La Hortaliza emit?

Productos La Hortaliza emits about 41,472 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 9,667 cars. That ranks #70 among tracked facilities in Puerto Rico.

Where is Productos La Hortaliza located?

Productos La Hortaliza is in Puerto Rico, near coordinates 18.29572, -67.1426.

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