Axens to Study Petroleum coke Feasibility

Axens will Conduct a bankable feasibility study for the first petroleum coke plant in Iran.

This contract was signed by Mahdi Karbasian, Chairman of the board of IMIDRO, and Francis Nativel ,Executive vice-president of Axens on April 23 in Tehran.
Axens is one of the subsidiaries of IFPEN, an international provider of advanced technologies, catalysts, adsorbents, technical assistance and consulting services such as carrying out technical and economic feasibility studies for optimizing performance of refinery units.
Based on this contract, Axens will perform a bankable feasibility study for petroleum coke plant in the next four months.
It's Considered that after completion of this feasibility study, there will be an international tender for construction of the plant.
Petroleum coke project will be performed for the first time in Iran and is one of the development projects of IMIDRO. This Project aims to meet the main needs of aluminum production industries in which raw materials will trasform to valuable materials such as petroleum coke and liquid products.
The Project's main pilot was lunched in sepetember 2015 in order to test the technology.
Construction of petroleum coke plant will be perform in Arvand Free Zone in Khuzestan province and about 50 hectares has been allocated to this project.
Executive operation of this project is predicted to be in the last months of the current Iranian year (started 20 march 2016) and accordingly the plan will be operational in the next four years.
Permission of oil ministry has been received plant's feed and now some infrastructures of the project is being provide.
This project has received its environmental license last year.
Production capacity of the project is about 200thousand tons calcined petroleum coke and 800 thousand tons liquid products which their raw materials will be supply from VB of Abadan refinery and CSO of Arak refinery.
For producing a ton of aluminum, Approximately 450 kilograms of calcined petroleum coke is required. With Construction of this plant, Almost 100% of country's requirement to aluminum production will be supplied.

source: imidro