Iranian Experts Produce Flame Detector for Oil, Gas Industries
“This is a device that is used in many factories as well as oil and gas and petrochemical industry for continuous flame monitoring,” said Mohammad Javad Saeedi, the managing director of the company.
“This device is capable of detecting a flame wherever there is a possibility of it, so that as soon as a flame occurs, it detects the flame and gives an alarm,” he added.
Noting that the flame detector includes two powerful infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) spectra, Saeedi said, “In the design and construction of this device, we used artificial intelligence and microelectronics technologies. These two technologies are used to increase speed and accuracy. Artificial intelligence has helped us to raise the flame and identify the flame, and it is able to identify the flame at a horizontal and vertical angle of 60 degrees and a length of 15 meters.”
“This device is installed on a base and can rotate 360 degrees vertically and horizontally,” he added.
In a relevant development last year, researchers at one of the knowledge-based companies in Iran had not only produced bio-polymers for use in toys and food coatings, but also, they had produced flame retardant powders that make cables and construction equipment resistant in fire.
“Our company's products are PVC softeners,” Farhad Larki, director of research and development of the Iranian knowledge-based company said in an interview with Iranian media.
He added that their company has 30 years of experience in producing chemicals, including automotive and industrial antifreeze, PVC plasticizers such as TOTM, DOTP and DOS, Trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) and powder products including flame retardant powder and special rubber improvers.
He added that some of these products are PVC-based oils that are used in the preparation of PVC granules and wire and cable industries, with plasticizers or softeners as examples, and stated, “Plasticizers are liquid substances that are mixed with hard polymers. And they make them soft and flexible to make them processable and create a variety of applications in them.”
“Plasticizers are substances injected into polymeric materials to provide or improve elasticity or plasticity required for reprocessing or use. They facilitate free-flowing material dispersion. Some of them, namely diketyl sebasate, also improve the properties of polymer materials against fire, light and heat,” he added.
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