Carbon monoxide "eliminated" from Iran air

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 1

By Emil Ilgar - Trend:

An Iranian official claimed that carbon monoxide (CO) has been eliminated from Iran's air after distribution of standard fuels.

After halting non-standard fuels consumption in big cities, the CO concentration in air reached about zero, Shana news agency quoted Saeed Motassaddi, the deputy head of the Environmental Protection Organization, as saying.

Iran stopped distribution of non-standard gasoline, which was produced at petrochemical plants, in 2014. The country also increased the Euro-4 gasoline production by 10 times to around 25 million liters per day and also increased standard gasoline imports to 12 million liters per day – all in the last three years.

Motassaddi also said that the share of mazut in fuel consumption of power plants in Iran decreased below 10 percent since 2014.

Iran increased gas deliveries to power sector from 36 billion cubic meters per day (bcm) in the fiscal year to 2014 to about 58 bcm in the last fiscal year, which ended on March 21.

According to the World Bank statistics, Iran produced above 0.6 billion tons of CO2 in 2012, about 15 percent more than 2008. At the time, Iran ranked 7th in terms of producing CO2 worldwide.

Statistics released by Iran Energy Efficiency Organization for 2012:

Iran consumes about 1.6 million barrels of oil products per day. The government of Iran hopes to manage to cut down greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent by the year 2030, Environment Department Director Masoumeh Ebtekar said in March 2016.