Contract in South Korea for three tail gas treatment units for the abatement of greenhouse gases
First approved CDM methodology for the reduction of nitrous oxide emissions from nitric acid plants
Uhde's EnviNOx® process uses a special catalyst to convert the pollutant nitrogen oxides, i.e. nitrous oxide (N2O) and NOx, in the tail gas streams of nitric acid plants into the naturally occurring substances nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour.
Future annual emissions at the Yeosu plants will be reduced by approximately 4,800 tonnes of nitrous oxide. As the global warming potential of nitrous oxide is estimated to be 310 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2), this corresponds to a CO2 reduction of approximately 1.5 million tonnes per year.
Uhde's new contract is embedded in a project for the achievement of climate protection goals based on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) defined in the Kyoto Protocol.
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