Potential for reducing air pollution from oil refineries
2008
Karbassi, A. R. | Abbasspour, M. | Sekhavatjou, M. S. | Ziviyar, F. | Saeedi, M.
Islamic Republic of Iran has to invest 95 billion US$ for her new oil refineries to the year 2045. At present, the emission factors for CO₂, NO ₓ and SO₂ are 3.5, 4.2 and 119 times higher than British refineries, respectively. In order to have a sustainable development in Iranian oil refineries, the government has to set emission factors of European Community as her goal. At present CO₂ per Gross Domestic Production (GDP) in the country is about 2.7 kg CO₂ as 1995's US$ value that should be reduced to 1.25 kg CO₂/GDP in the year 2015. Total capital investment for such reduction is estimated at 346 million US$ which is equal to 23 US$/ton of CO₂. It is evident that mitigation of funds set by Clean Development Mechanism (3 to 7 US$/tons of CO₂) is well below the actual capital investment needs. Present survey shows that energy efficiency promotion potential in all nine Iranian oil refineries is about 165,677 MWh/year through utilization of more efficient pumps and compressors. Better management of boilers in all nine refineries will lead to a saving of 273 million m³ of natural gas per year.
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