A new plant should soon start operating in the Bor smelter, which will purify all waste gases from metallurgical plants and the Sulfuric Acid Factory and enable completely clean air to be released into the atmosphere from the newly built chimney, the company Zijin Srbija announced.
“The new plant means the opening of a new stage of work in which all waste, fugitive gases from the smelter and the Sulfuric Acid Factory will be purified, and the emission of harmful gases on the chimney will be drastically reduced,” said the head of the Sulfuric Acid Factory Zoran Aleksov.
He added that this is a new technology, which is already being applied in China and is yielding results.
The projected capacity of the flue gas and waste gas processing plant is 700,000 cubic meters per hour, the sulfur dioxide content of waste gases after treatment is less than 100 micrograms per cubic meter, and the particle content is below five micrograms.
With the technical reconstruction of the smelter, which began in July 2019, the capacity of metallurgical units will be increased from 60 to 80 thousand tons of cathode copper per year to 180 thousand tons of cathode, and the investment is worth 220 million euros.
The emission of exhaust gases will be in accordance with the standards when the reconstruction of the smelter is completed, the wastewater will be able to be used again after purification and the standards of the European Union will be met, the company Zijin Srbija, the majority owner of RTB, said in a statement, Danas reports.
