Top News of Last Week with ANA

Azad News Agency (ANA) published a number of scientific and technological news during the past week whose top ones are as follows:

Iranian Consortium to Build Hi-Tech RSS Drilling Machine

A consortium of three powerful Iranian companies are due to design and manufacture the hi-tech rotary steerable system (RSS) used for directional drilling, an official said.

“One of the challenges of Iran’s oil industry is in shared oilfields because countries that share an oilfield with Iran have been extracting oil with deviant drilling in less time in the past few years but this technology does not exist in the country,” said Mohammad Amin Alavi, the manager of Iran’s Technology Exchange Network.

He named the equipment needed for horizontal drilling of oilfields as the rotary steerable system (RSS), and said, “Three to four companies in the world make this machine. The mentioned companies only export their sevices to the other countries and refuse from providing the technology to other countries.

“We will design and build RSS devices in Iran by signing a memorandum of understanding with the Oil Ministry and forming a consortium with the presence of three capable companies in this field,” Alavi said.

He added that the cost of making the first sample of the RSS device will be $2.5 to $3 million.

Iranian Knowledge-Based Firm Makes Lubricants for Cable Industries

A knowledge-based company in Iran has managed to produce and commercialize special industrial lubricants suitable for wire and cable industries.

“Our company is a specialized producer of stretching process lubricants used in industries which manufacture wire and cable with a very high quality comparable to European products,” said Saeed Soleimani, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.

“Machine oil, aluminum wire and wire drawing oil, HT heat transfer oil, T turbine oil, soluble turning oil, H hydraulic oil, hydraulic oil with high viscosity index HV, hydraulic oil

zinc-free Hz, industrial gear oil G, circulation oil CI and (air) compressor oil (CO) are among our products,” he added.

“The gel lubricant used in the metalworking and steel industry is a knowledge-based product of this company, and its production as a solvent has resolved the consumers’ challenges,” Soleimani said.

Shielding Paint Produced in Iran for High-Frequency Radiations, Low-Frequency Electric Fields

A nanotechnology firm in Iran manufactured a special shielding paint which can be used to reduce the impacts of high-frequency radiations and low frequency electric fields.

‘FERMA High-tech Engineering Co. Ltd’ company has produced the water-based paint modified by nanoparticles which enjoys a strong electromagnetic shielding property. It possesses a low density (1.22 g cm3) and can be completely dried within a day.

The application of nanoparticles in the new paint has led to a remarkable reduction in intensity of electromagnetic fields within the range of 8-12 GHz.

The special product can be used for painting the walls of residential buildings and places with sensitive electrical, electronic, and telecommunication fields.

Iranian Firm Locally Produces Herbal Beverages from Moringa Oleifera

Researchers in a knowledge-based company in Iran have successfully indigenized and produced herbal beverages and other types of useful medicine from “Moringa Oleifera” which helps in curbing high sugar level in blood and blood pressure in human body.

“Our product is a highly useful herbal tea called Moringa which is extracted from a plant. Moringa is registered as an aromatic medicine for the first time in Iran,” Maryam Makarian, the managing director of a knowledge-based company located in the Science and Technology Park of the Islamic Azad University's Jahrom branch said in an interview with ANA.

She also said Moringa beverage is highly useful in curbing blood pressure, cholesterol and prevents heart attacks by strengthening the body against chronic diseases such as diabetes.

She added that researchers were able to produce different compounds from the plant including Moringa herbal beverage, powder, capsule, oil, etc.

The managing director of the knowledge-based company further warned the plant has many benefits, but if a large amount of it is used it becomes poisonous and may cause disorders in patients.

Sixty Percent Reduction in Drinking Water Consumption with Drinking Straw

Researchers of a knowledge-based company in Iran have designed and produced a new water dispenser that has a drinking straw to reduce water consumption.

“We have been working on optimizing water consumption for the past 16 years and we were able to register 12 inventions with the approval of the Ministry of Energy. Four of enventions have so far been commercialized and mass produced,” said Mohammad Hossein Dehghan Dehnavi, the managing director of a knowledge-based company and one of the country's top entrepreneurs., in an interview with ANA .

He said that producing faucets is one of the big achievements of his company, adding, “by using these water dispenser faucets, which can replace the old faucets, there wiil be no need for single-used cups to drink water with, and it is enough to take a small disposable plastic straw from a box next to the water dispenser and place it in the hole made inside the water faucet. Simply by pressing the reed valve and placing the straw in the mouth, water is drunk through it at the desired amount in accordance with the pre-exercised pressure. When we are done, we need to place the reed valve (hose) opposite the straw discharge box so that the straw is thrown into the discharge can.”

“We have also produced pedal faucets that can be installed on the bathroom,” said Dehnavi, adding the air conditioner shade is another product of their company, which, as he said, is produced in line with the optimizing water consumption goal of the of company. 

Islamic Azad University Researcher Offers New Ideas About Voltage Regulators

An Iranian graduate of Islamic Azad University has written a book about voltage regulators, capacitors and parallel reactors in power systems.

Sadegh Jahanbin, a graduate from Islamic Azad University (Rafsanjan branch) has written a book available in the market entitled "Distributed Systems with D-FACTS devices."

“So far, in line with the goal of optmizing power distribution networks, many articles have been presented and have proposed the installation and operation of distributed generation sources, the installation of capacitors and tap changer transformers and other devices and ways to reduce real power losses and improve network voltage,” Director of Electrical Engineering Department of Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan branch, Hessam Rahbari Magham said about the book in an interview with ANA news agency.

“For example, distributed generation sources with optimal installation in network buses by injecting active power into the network can reduce losses and improve the voltage profile in the network,” he added.

Iranian Researchers Invent Digital Instrument to Measure Magnetic Field Intensity

Researchers at Biochemistry and Biophysics Institute of the University of Tehran (UT) have successfully managed to invent and register "digital instrument to measure magnetic field intensity".

Ali Akbar Mousavi Movahedi, a professor at the University of Tehran (UT), Shirin Mohammadi, Mahdieh Rehban and Parviz Nowrozi, were the researchers at the UT Biochemistry and Biophysics Institute that managed to obtain the patent for the digital Instrument to measure magnetic field intensity, according to a report by the University of Tehran’s public relations department.

This digital magnetic field measuring device is a magnetic measuring instrument that can be controlled with a computer from far away.

A smart control technology is used in the invention to produce a high-precision measuring instrument to measure magnetic field strength. It is specifically for the detection of the inductive magnetic field, which is based on a computer- and processor-controlled measuring system.

Knowledge-Based Company in Iran Produces Microscopic Algae

Researchers of a knowledge-based company in Iran have successfully grown algae in three different formats for uses in food-pharmaceutical, cosmetic and health and livestock-agricultural industries.

“Production of microscopic algae is one of the main achievements of this company in the field of biotechnology," Shima Moradi, one of the managers of the knowledge-based company told ANA.

“We succeeded in growing different types of algae in the country's food and pharmaceutical industry," she added. 

Stating that different types of algae such as spirulina, chlorella, hematococcus and donalila are grown in their company, she said, “Spirulina algae is used in three fields of food, medicine, cosmetics, health and farming.”

Pointing out that spirulina algae is offered in the form and shape of chips in the knowledge-based company, Moradi clarified, “Currently, spirulina algae powder and phycocyanin pigment are used in the food industry in smoothies, syrups, ice cream, cakes, chocolates, pasta, etc. These products are enriched by these algae.”

Iranian Company Produces Nano-Based Drug to Treat Cancer

An Iranian company used nanotechnology to produce an albumin-bound paclitaxel, a drug used to treat different types of cancer.

‘Nano Daroo Pazhuhan Pardis’ company has produced the medicine which is an albumin-bound paclitaxel and can be typically used for the treatment of different cancers like the breast, pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers.

The drug is an efficient natural anti-cancer agent inhabiting the growth of cancer cells with no side-effects unlike other solvent-based chemotherapy counterparts.

The addition of albumin nanocarrier to the paclitaxel has led to higher anti-cancer efficiency and considerable penetration of nanocarriers into the tumor tissue

The drug can be used for treatment of tumors in breast, pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers.

Anti-Cancer Drug Produced by Iranian Nanotechnology Firm

An Iranian company developed a nanoliposome carrier to inject doxorubicin into the body of patients suffering from cancer.

‘Exir Nano Sina’ company has made the product, called SinaDoxosome, which is a cancer treatment drug composed of liposomal hydrochloride doxorubicin, in which the doxorubicin is inserted into a nanoliposome carriers.

The product is highly effective in destruction of cancer cells, reducing their size, and retarding the tumor growth.

Loading the drug inside the nanoliposomal carrier has led to increasing the permeability and stability of the drug and alleviating the side effects of the drug.

The drug can be used for the systematic treatment of metastatic breast cancer, advanced ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma and AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma.

AI Helps Iranian Researchers to Optimize Agricultural Water Consumption

A knowledge-based company in Iran succeeded in production of a smart irrigation system by using artificial intelligence (AI) that optimizes water consumption in agriculture by over 45%.

“Our activities are focused on designing and producing smart irrigation systems and providing services in the field of smart environment,” Zahra Abou Shahab, the managing director of the knowledge-based company stationed at the Science and Technology Park of Islamic Azad University, told ANA on the sidelines of Iran's 26th International Exhibition of Electronics, Computers, and e-Commerce (ELECOMP 2023) in Tehran.

“Our company started working in 2014 and we tried to offer the best product in the field of water consumption management to the society by using different sciences and new technologies like electronics, mechatronics and artificial intelligence,” she added.

Abou Shahab pointed to the application of the company's knowledge-based products, and explained, “Since the major part of water consumption happens in the agricultural sector, the most important application of our product is the management of agricultural water consumption and it can optimize it more than 45%.”

“This product provides the user, farmer or well owner with the possibility to manage the consumption of energy and water carriers without being present and with minimal risk, thereby increasing the productivity of their production by 25 percent will be witnessed,” she underlined.

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