Cement Plant in United States. Approximate location 41.26689, -105.6056.
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Laramie Cement Plant is a cement plant in United States with a reported capacity of 800,000 t of cement. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement. It is operated by Mountain Cement Company LLC. By capacity it ranks #66 of 86 cement plants tracked in United States. It emits about 150,656 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 35,118 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 48% below the median cement plant.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-32439285.
При потужності 800,000 t of cement Laramie Cement Plant — це нижче медіана cement plant у United States (1,100,000 t of cement). Його викидання CO₂ на одиницю потужності приблизно на 37% 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 Mountain Cement Company LLC. All facilities by this operator →
Laramie Cement Plant sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 41.3°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #66 largest of 86 cement plants in United States by reported capacity.
Coordinates 41.26689, -105.6056. 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 8,000 MWh/yr (≈ 2,700 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
See Inzonex insulation → Estimate your site →
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.
Funding. Investment tax credit up to 30% of qualified investment incl. industrial decarbonization; open to small/medium/large manufacturers.
Obligation. None at federal level (voluntary). Some states have their own programs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Laramie Cement Plant is a cement plant in United States. It burns limestone in high-temperature rotary kilns to make clinker and cement.
Laramie Cement Plant has a reported capacity of 800,000 t of cement.
Laramie Cement Plant emits about 150,656 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 35,118 cars. That ranks #572 among tracked facilities in United States.
Laramie Cement Plant is in United States, near coordinates 41.26689, -105.6056.
Laramie Cement Plant is operated by Mountain Cement Company LLC.
