In the year that was named after the Supreme Leader by the name of the resistance, action and action economy, efforts were made to improve energy management and optimize fuel, pure argon in Isfahan Steel Company.

Hassan Khazaei, director of energy and fuel optimization of the company, announced the announcement of this news, adding: "With the consistent follow-up of the deputy chief of staff and the efforts of energy management and fuel optimization staff, the automation and communications engineering managers, the purchase of contract services, the central laboratory, technical affairs, the purification system The Argon (COAR) and Argon Production Unit of the KAAP-32 Air Separation Block was commissioned and put into operation.

He pointed out that the raw argon produced in the oxygen workshop contained some oxygen which, by injection of hydrogen produced in a 99.99 percent purity hydrogen production workshop in reactors that were assigned to it, reduced the amount of oxygen in argon that could be consumed in the industry Finds

He argued that in the air separation block KAAP-32, it is possible to produce liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and argon, because the higher value added of the argon is the production of the block, the production of argon is liquid.

Khazaei stressed that the production of one ton per hour of argon and the sale of it would add up to 100 billion rials a year to the factory. He also reminded: the company's oxygen workshop in the filler balloon also has the ability to fill high-pressure argon capsules.

Definition and uses of argon and its production steps:

The deputy director of energy and fuel optimization also said in an interview with our reporter that argon gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless: "There are about 0.94% argon in the atmosphere, which in both cases of gas And its fluid is ineffective, and no specific chemical composition has ever been known of this element. Amirhassan Chapran stated: KAAP-32 air separation block with deep air cooling and three different operating modes. Ability to produce products such as gas oxygen, nitrogen gas, oxygen, liquid liquid nitrogen and argon with a purity of at least 99.5 and a maximum of 99.993. Percentage.

He also noted the application of argon: filling bubbles of lamps and double-glazed windows, washing molten metals in order to separate dissolved gases, lasers, carbon steel from stainless steel and also in a particular type of welding as an electric arc protection gas Used.

He also pointed out that crude argon with a purity of about 96% with an impurity of about 4% of oxygen and a small amount of nitrogen in the air separation unit KAAP-32 and at a flow rate of 620m3 / h to 550 gases into the Argon Refinery (COAP) It can be said that raw argon was initially mixed in hydrogen gas mixer with 99.999% purity produced in hydrogen unit of the mixed oxygen workshop and then entered reactor number 1, heat exchangers for cooling, humidifier and then entered the second reactor, heat exchangers, humidifier And then enters the zeolite dryer and becomes free of moisture.

Chapryan continued: In reactors, hydrogen is combined with oxygen in the raw argon, adjacent to the catalyst, and produces up to 540 ° C with thermal chemical reactions. He stated: "Due to the high temperature of the reactors, the combination of hydrogen and oxygen in the form of steam is removed from the reactors, and after passing through the cool heat exchangers, moisture in the humidifiers is removed from the ducts, and finally, after passing through the dryers, the free moisture It turns out