New environmental challenge in Refining
– How to minimize or eliminate unpleasant odour emissions?

Numerous industrial facilities – among them also refineries – have been emitting unpleasant odours during their manufacturing processes for decades, however the number of local complaints increased only in the recent years. The most probable cause is the increased awareness of both the environment and individual rights of people.

Odour control is a special, brandnew area of air pollution control, complicated by its direct impact on the public at large. The cost-effective solution of disturbing odour emission reduction imposes a new challenge to the industrial parties, including oil refineries. As in case of any type of pollution the greatest part is the prevention, which
have to be taken into account already in the design phase of technologies and units, and respectively be considered also in the implementation phase.

Katalin Miklós, Réka M. Söjtöriné, Melinda Czibulka, György Isaák