NIORDC Arak Refinery

NIORDC Arak Refinery is a refinery in Iran with a reported capacity of 250,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Co. By capacity it ranks #5 of 10 oil refineries tracked in Iran. It emits about 3,604,524 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 840,215 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 71% above the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143945.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 250,000 BBL per day, NIORDC Arak Refinery está alrededor de la mediana de refinery en Iran (250,000 BBL per day). 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.

What 3,604,524 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 oil refineries in Iran

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Co. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

NIORDC Arak Refinery sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean continental climate zone (Köppen Dsa), at 34.0°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 10 oil refineries in Iran by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• (Shazand) Arak Petrochemical, Arak,Marzaki · Petrochemical · 429,674 t CO₂
• Arak aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 116,008 t CO₂
• Arak (2) aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 232,015 t CO₂
• Doroud Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 579,059 t CO₂
• Raveh Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 403,229 t CO₂
• Nahavand Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 264,208 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 34.00805, 49.47678. View on OpenStreetMap.

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