Lime Plant in China. Approximate location 31.91919, 120.28432.
Lime PlantChinaCO₂ reported
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. is a lime plant in China with a reported capacity of 409,811 t of lime. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns. By capacity it ranks #891 of 1,349 lime plants tracked in China. It emits about 269,847 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 62,901 cars.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38468483.
在409,811 t of lime时，Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant.是China中lime plant的中位数约 409,811 t of lime。 子部门：lime。 作为lime plant，它需要强烈的工艺热量（通常600–900°C）来进行其核心工业操作——必须通过锅炉、炉或直接燃烧供应的热量，通过未隔热的容器和管道的损失代表浪费的燃料。可拆卸模块化绝缘可以将这些损失减少80-96%，将表面冷却至≤45°C，投资回收期通常不到2年。 石灰厂在800-900°C的热窑中煅烧石灰石，热生石灰必须在隔热容器中处理，以防止与水分反应。
容量和CO₂强度比较从Climate TRACE工业设施数据计算得出；部门角色基于工程参考。
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 lime), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 31.9°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #891 largest of 1349 lime plants in China by reported capacity.
Coordinates 31.91919, 120.28432. View on OpenStreetMap.
A lime plant like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: kiln, preheater, hot-gas ducting, valves & dampers (surface/process temperatures around 200–900 °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.
calcination-heavy like cement; 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 9,000 MWh/yr (≈ 3,100 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.
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. is a lime plant in China. It calcines limestone into quicklime in high-temperature kilns.
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. has a reported capacity of 409,811 t of lime.
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. emits about 269,847 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 62,901 cars. That ranks #2020 among tracked facilities in China.
Jiangyin Shiguaun Jintong Lime Processing Plant. is in China, near coordinates 31.91919, 120.28432.
