DOE Conditions Use of Mazut in Power Plants

Power plants may use mazut for electricity generation provided that they are equipped with an air quality control system, the Department of Environment’s deputy for climate change said.
“If power plants have a control system, there is no problem with using mazut. All over the world, power stations use liquid fuel like diesel and mazut by installing pollution control equipment on their smokestacks to prevent air pollution, while none of our power plants has such equipment,” ISNA also quoted Dariush Golalizadeh as saying.
Referring to DOE’s efforts to force power plants to install air quality control systems, he said: “We asked the previous government and the former president [Hassan Rouhani] ordered the energy and oil ministries to do so, but it did not happen as the ministries claimed that our power plants are old and it is not possible to install such equipment.”