Iranian Company Sells 4 Million Dollars Worth of Nanoatalysts to Russia

“One of our nanocatalysts which has been able to compete with its British, Danish and German counterparts is the reformer catalyst which has so far 57 references for use in domestic petrochemical complexes and 13 foreign references,” said Ali Taheri, the exports manager of the knowledge-based company.

“At present, 26 domestic steel reformers and one foreign reformer in Russia have been put into operation with the catalysts of Sarv Oil and Gas Company,” he added.

Taheri underlined that one of the important achievements of the knowledge-based company is the production and supply of 8,000 tons of direct iron reduction catalysts and the loading of 27 direct iron reduction reformers in the country by using the company’s catalysts.

Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council (INIC) announced that 20% of the country's nanotechnology market belongs to nanocatalyts.

“Nanocatalysts have a 20% share of Iran’s nanotechnology market,” the INIC reported.

“At present, 17 nanotechnology companies are active in the two fields of oil and gas and auto-making in Iran which have succeeded in winning one fifth of the country's nanotechnology market,” it added.

The report noted that 65% of nanotechnology companies operate in the oil and gas sector and 35% in the automobile sector, adding that the market volume of catalysts in the oil and gas sector is 65% and in the auto-making sector is 44%.

The INIC had also reported in December that a technological company in Iran produces various types of nanocatalysts, including active alumina catalyst (conversion claus catalyst), active alumina catalyst modified by iron (oxygen scavenging type), and sulfur recovery catalyst.

The company’s production has met the country’s needs for such products, the report said.

The company’s catalysts have already been used in different refineries and gas fields such as Ilam Refinery Co, Shahid Hasheminejad gas refinery, different phases of South Pars gas field and Khark Petrochemical company, the INIC report added.

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