Environmental perspective in Iran's energy consumption sectors

Concerns about energy consumption and consequential environmental impact in Iran has been raised in recent years. Iran's total emissions in the year of 2006 includes 390.6 million of ton Carbon dioxide, 2.25 million tons of carbon monoxide, 2.49 million tons of NOx, 0.7 million tons of SO2, 2.25 million tons of residual hydrocarbons, 0.63 million tons of Aldhydes, and 0.33 million tons of Dusts. The present paper will study the energy consumption and various types of emissions in consumption sector in Iran. Through analyzing the trends, it will identify technological bottlenecks and improvement opportunities in order to decrease environmental impacts associated with energy consumption. Introducing natural gas is the leading opportunity of Iranian energy infrastructure. In contrast, the following problems were identified and some solutions are proposed in this study. These challenges include: transportation sector from technological point of view; low standard of different fuels such as gasoline, fuel oil and gas oil, Low price of fuels; lack of logical pattern to guide the consumption sectors; and low efficiency of demand sector, ... .