Marjan Petrochem Company Reduces Pollution, Expenses

Marjan Petrochemical Company has achieved the knowhow of designing and manufacturing burners of furnaces for methanol production.
The initiative seeks to reduce the emission of polluting gases and flaring, and reduce fuel consumption and production costs, the National Petrochemical Company’s news service Nipna reported.
The use of burners has resulted in a reduction of 103 million cubic meters of fuel consumption. By reducing polluting gases and flaring in the region, it has prevented the annual release of 202,000 tons of carbon dioxide and further reduce the annual cost of production by over $6.5 million.
Only a few countries previously had the knowhow of designing burner for methanol production furnaces, including the US, China, Italy, Brazil, Denmark and Norway. Now, thanks to the efforts of domestic engineers, Iran can also design and manufacture this equipment.
Located in South Pars Petzone 2 in Asalouyeh Port on the Persian Gulf coastline, Marjan Petrochemical Plant is operating with an annual production capacity of 1.65 million tons of methanol in the southern Bushehr Province.
Methanol is one of the most widely used chemicals of high added value in the world. Methanol is mainly used to produce formaldehyde (35.2%), MTPEBE (23.6%), acetic acid (8.6%), chloro-methane (4.2%), methyl amine (2.8%), fuel (2.7%) and solvents (2.3%). 
Over the past few years, new applications, including the conversion of methanol to dimethyl ether (clean fuel), polypropylene and olefins are expanding. The growth rate of methanol usage as fuel in the recent period is three times higher than other methanol derivatives. 
According to the latest reports, the annual global demand growth for methanol is expected to remain 1.3% per year.