BILT Ballarpur Industries Ltd - Unit Shreegopal

BILT Ballarpur Industries Ltd - Unit Shreegopal is a pulp & paper mill in India with a reported capacity of 67,000 t of pulp & paper. It turns wood or recovered fibre into pulp and paper, with large steam and drying loads. It is operated by Ballarpur Industries Ltd. By capacity it ranks #3 of 12 pulp & paper mills tracked in India. It emits about 36,208 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 8,440 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-44375568.

У контексті: як порівнюється це підприємство

При потужності 67,000 t of pulp & paper BILT Ballarpur Industries Ltd - Unit Shreegopal — це приблизно медіана pulp & paper mill у India (67,000 t of pulp & paper). Підсектор: pulp-and-paper. Як pulp & paper mill, воно вимагає високотемпературного технологічного тепла (зазвичай 150–250°C) для основних промислових операцій — тепла, яке повинне подаватися котлами, печами або прямим спаленням, і втрати через неізольовані судини та трубопроводи представляють витрачене напразно паливо. Знімна модульна теплоізоляція може зменшити ці втрати на 80–96%, охолодивши поверхню обладнання до ≤45°C, з окупністю часто менше 2 років. Целюлозно-паперові комбінати генерують власну пару для процесу варіння целюлози та сушки паперу, працюючи з великомасштабними котельними установками, де втрати тепла безпосередньо зменшують ефективність.

Порівняння продуктивності та інтенсивності CO₂ розраховано на основі даних промислових об'єктів Climate TRACE; роль сектору заснована на інженерних довідниках.

What 36,208 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 pulp & paper mills in India

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

Operator

Operated by Ballarpur Industries Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

BILT Ballarpur Industries Ltd - Unit Shreegopal sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 30.1°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 #3 largest of 12 pulp & paper mills in India by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Star Paper Mills Ltd - Saharanpur Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 36,208 t CO₂
• Ssipl Retail Limited, Bhagani · Textiles · 913 t CO₂
• Cement Corp of India Rajban Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 136,108 t CO₂
• Nahar Industrial Enterprises Limited-Nahar Processing · Textiles · 913 t CO₂
• Asia Fine Cements Rajpura Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 671,513 t CO₂
• Aspen Crew Sports Gear · Textiles · 913 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.12539, 77.28618. View on OpenStreetMap.

Heat loss & insulation profile

A pulp & paper mill like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: digesters, dryers, evaporators, steam lines, hot-water systems (surface/process temperatures around 80–200 °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.

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 4,100 MWh/yr (≈ 810 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:

• Japan JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism) — Japan co-finances diffusion of decarbonising tech incl. INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY in partner countries, in exchange for carbon credits. Channels: MOEJ model projects, ADB trust funds, NEDO demonstrations.
• UK International Climate Finance (ICF / ODA) — ~GBP 6bn ODA over 3 yrs; industrial-decarbonisation flows via Climate Investment Funds (CIF) - Clean Technology Fund.
• Green Climate Fund (GCF) + ADB / World Bank / UNIDO — Concessional finance & grants for industrial energy efficiency. E.g. GCF $200M ADB-led India Green Finance Facility; World Bank FP071 'Scaling Up Energy Efficiency for Industrial Enterprises in Vietnam'; ASEAN ACGF energy-efficiency revolving funds incl. SMEs.

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.

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