The plants commissioned a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) for its ABS
unit on Thursday in a ceremony where a number of the members of the Iranian parliament
were present.
The CEO of the facility, Siavash Derafshi, said construction of the
unit began in 2016 in a bid to materialize the facility’s environmental commitments
towards its staff and the community.
He said by
implementing the project, a large part of the pollutant gases (volatile organic
compounds-VOC) in the ABS unit were collected from the unit through a blow channel
and were sent to a special furnace at 800 to 1000 ° C to be orderly
obliterated.
RTO is a
piece of industrial equipment used for the treatment of exhaust air. The system
is a type of thermal oxidizer that uses a bed of ceramic material to absorb
heat from the exhaust gas. It then uses this captured heat to preheat the
incoming process gas stream and destroy air pollutants emitted from process
exhaust streams at temperatures ranging from 815 °C (1,500 F) to 980 °C (1,800
F).