Iran-Made Ice Adhesion Measurement System Exported to Europe
The ice adhesion measurement system that was exported to the Belgian university was designed and produced by Iranian Jikan Group.
"We have been working on anti-icing technology for many years. Since 2016, due to the research we were doing, we worked on the prototype and laboratory setup of this device, and we also made several copies of it for research work until the Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council (INIC) in 2019 released a call for the upgrade of the laboratory setup to a commercial equipment, and through this call we managed to get support, and with the support of the INIC, our initial nano setup was completed and turned into a commercial device,” Jikan CEO Farshid Chini said.
“This field is very new in Iran, and the applications of this device are still not very significant in Iran, but there is a good market outside the country. We have exported three machines to the European Union and are currently looking to establish a headquarters in Europe in order to enable us to export the product more easily,” he also said.
According to him, the machine can be used in various parts such as heat exchangers, exhausts of some factories and anywhere where ice is formed. This device produces and breaks ice under the conditions that are created in the real world. For that, the necessary measurements are made on the ice.
Jikan CEO further said that there are 17 different phases for the formation of ice, each of which has its own characteristics, for example, the type of freezing in the frost of the glacier is different from that of icicle. This device simulates the desired phase of ice and ice is produced and broken under the same phase. Accurate simulation of ice is very important in obtaining the correct result of the experiment. the mentioned feature makes this device unique.
According to Chini, there are currently several laboratory setups of this type of device in the United States, but none of them have been commercialized. But, the Jikan device has high reproducibility and has been commercialized. One of the differences between this Iranian-made machine and other laboratory equivalents used in the US is the shorter time of ice production. The Iranian device takes only an hour instead of 24 hours to create ice with the desired phase on the surface.
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