Iran-Made AI-Based System Optimizes Performance of Urban Gas Distribution, Sewage Networks
“The intelligent system for optimizing operation, planning and maintenance in industrial facilities is based on Digital Twin and artificial intelligence, which has been indigenized to optimize the operation of facilities,” said Morteza Taqvayee Hosseinzadeh, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that the platform has been used in the urban water and sewage facilities in several cities, he said, “This system has also been implemented in the gas distribution network of Mashhad.”
Taqvayee Hosseinzadeh stated that designing and development of the intelligent operating system in the field of water and gas supply network leads to significant energy savings, adding, “With the software engineering studies that we carried out, we designed this meta-system in a modular way so that we can use the artificial intelligence in other fields, including oil, gas and mining industries, etc. too.”
“Based on the structure of the produced software, we have also developed general products like the smart project control system, the management dashboard system, and the behavior prediction system, which are used in all public and private organizations and companies,” he said.
In a relevant development late in 2022, a knowledge-based company in Iran had achieved the technology to convert oil sludge and waste from urban sewage treatment into usable products and fuel.
Ali Khani, a Ph.D. graduate in applied chemistry-environmental engineering and a faculty member of Islamic Azad University’s Mianeh branch, along with Ali Rasoulzadeh, the founder of the knowledge-based company, are the manufacturers of the multi-functional co-pyrolysis system for recycling all types of urban, industrial and agricultural waste in Iran.
“Our knowledge-based company has succeeded in producing the multifunctional co-pyrolysis device which is used for recycling all types of worthless rejected waste,” Khani told ANA.
The device converts urban, hospital and industrial polymer wastes, including non-recyclable plastic and rubber wastes, into hydrocarbons for diesel fuel and carbon black, greenhouse wastes and agricultural wastes into wood vinegar and biochar, oil sludge resulted from drilling operations, oil transfer and refinery operations into oil derivatives, and sludge from urban sewage treatment and wet urban waste into biochar, he added
Noting that no such technology has existed in Iran so far, Khani said that compared to foreign models, the Iran-made device is more efficient, less pollutant and higher quality and it is capable of multitasking.
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