Cement Plant in Morocco. Approximate location 32.56678, -6.1361.
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Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant is a cement plant in Morocco with a reported capacity of 1,600,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Ciments de L'Atlas SA. By capacity it ranks #8 of 14 cement plants tracked in Morocco. It emits about 423,115 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 98,628 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 27% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1897455.
При потужності 1,600,000 t of cement Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant — це приблизно медіана cement plant у Morocco (1,600,000 t of cement). Його викидання CO₂ на одиницю потужності приблизно на 16% нижче медіани cement plant. Підсектор: cement. Як cement plant, воно вимагає високотемпературного технологічного тепла (зазвичай 800–1400°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. Цементні заводи нагрівають вапняк до 1400°C у обертових печах — один із найгарячіших промислових процесів — і повинні точно контролювати температуру по всій довжині печі.
Порівняння продуктивності та інтенсивності CO₂ розраховано на основі даних промислових об'єктів Climate TRACE; роль сектору заснована на інженерних довідниках.
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 (t of cement), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Ciments de L'Atlas SA. All facilities by this operator →
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 32.6°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #8 largest of 14 cement plants in Morocco by reported capacity.
Coordinates 32.56678, -6.1361. View on OpenStreetMap.
A cement plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: rotary kiln shell, preheater tower, tertiary air duct & kiln hood, clinker-cooler ducts, valves (surface/process temperatures around 200–1,000 °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.
60% of cement CO2 is process calcination - NOT insulation-addressable; energy here is the fuel side only.
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 10,000 MWh/yr (≈ 3,400 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.
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.
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant is a cement plant in Morocco. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 1,600,000 t of cement.
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant emits about 423,115 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 98,628 cars. That ranks #10 among tracked facilities in Morocco.
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant is in Morocco, near coordinates 32.56678, -6.1361.
Dir El Ksiba Cement Plant is operated by Ciments de L'Atlas SA.
