Knowledge-Based Firm in Iran Produces Vanadium from Power Plants’ Waste
Parviz Norouz Mehr, a senior expert at the research and development (R&D) unit of the company, described comprehensive environmental management as the research field of the company, and said, “Mainly, we have made research in the field of producing vanadium and valuable metals from power plants’ waste, making waste management smarter and building a pilot and advanced machine in a green process that has been put into operation.”
“The pyrolysis device produced in this company has been designed to convert waste into fuel in a way that the waste enters the device and is broken down indirectly in the absence of oxygen, and its hydrocarbon materials turn into liquid fuels and valuable materials,” he explained.
“The fuel obtained from this device can be burned, and the extracted valuable materials are capable of being separated and recovered,” Norouz Mehr said.
“According to the researchers of the company, vanadium with a purity level of 98% is one of the valuable metals that was separated from the waste of power plants which has applications in production of catalysts and food and pharmaceutical industries,” he added.
Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer (passivation) somewhat stabilizes the free metal against further oxidation.
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