Gachsaran Petrochemical Company (8th Olefin complex), Gachsaran,Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Amad

Gachsaran Petrochemical Company (8th Olefin complex), Gachsaran,Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Amad is a petrochemical in Iran with a reported capacity of 1,000,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It is operated by Borujen Petrochemical . By capacity it ranks #5 of 11 petrochemical plants tracked in Iran. It emits about 1,303,485 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 303,843 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-731917.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 1,000,000 t of ethylene, Gachsaran Petrochemical Company (8th Olefin complex), Gachsaran,Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Amad está muy por encima de la mediana de petrochemical en Iran (565,000 t of ethylene). Subsector: petrochemical-steam-cracking. Como petrochemical, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 300–800°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las plantas petroquímicas agrietan hidrocarburos a temperaturas muy altas para producir etileno, propileno y otros químicos básicos — uno de los procesos industriales más intensivos en calor.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 1,303,485 t CO₂e a year looks like

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.

Capacity vs largest petrochemical plants in Iran

Reported capacity (t of ethylene), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Borujen Petrochemical .

Local climate

Gachsaran Petrochemical Company (8th Olefin complex), Gachsaran,Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Amad sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 30.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #5 largest of 11 petrochemical plants in Iran by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Behbahan Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 237,398 t CO₂
• Tangari Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 103,633 t CO₂
• IRN-Genaveh_methanol · Chemical Plant · 437,742 t CO₂
• Borzajan Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 248,079 t CO₂
• Haftkel Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 626,894 t CO₂
• Shiraz Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 538,428 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.41179, 50.747. View on OpenStreetMap.

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