Refinery in Iran. Approximate location 30.34983, 48.27798.
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NIORDC Abadan Refinery is a refinery in Iran with a reported capacity of 388,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. By capacity it ranks #2 of 10 oil refineries tracked in Iran. It emits about 4,328,496 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,008,973 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 32% above the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143941.
Con 388,000 BBL per day, NIORDC Abadan Refinery está muy por encima de la mediana de refinery en Iran (250,000 BBL per day). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 23% por debajo de la mediana de refinery. Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 200–600°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 refinerías calientan, fraccionan y transforman químicamente el petróleo crudo en combustibles y materias primas petroquímicas mediante destilación y craqueo que consumen mucha energía — extremadamente exigentes en generación de vapor y recuperación de 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.
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 (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
NIORDC Abadan Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.3°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #2 largest of 10 oil refineries in Iran by reported capacity.
Coordinates 30.34983, 48.27798. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °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.
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 76,000 MWh/yr (≈ 15,000 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:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
NIORDC Abadan Refinery is a refinery in Iran. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
NIORDC Abadan Refinery has a reported capacity of 388,000 BBL per day.
NIORDC Abadan Refinery emits about 4,328,496 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,008,973 cars. That ranks #5 among tracked facilities in Iran.
NIORDC Abadan Refinery is in Iran, near coordinates 30.34983, 48.27798.
