Iranian Experts Make Oil Centrifuges, Other Lab Equipment

“Our main field of research is the design and manufacture of general laboratory equipment. Our products are used in fields like food, petrochemicals, textiles, paints and resins,” said Farid Monzavi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.

“In the food industry laboratories section, we have been able to design and manufacture general devices, including incubators, various ovens and equipment related to chemical and microbial laboratories,” he added.

Monzavi also described the production of laboratory equipment in the textile sector as another field of activity of the company, and said, “Humidity chambers for conducting environmental condition tests are among our achievements in this field.”

“The production of devices like paint and resin mixers, temperature and humidity test chambers, and centrifuges for the oil industry is another success of this company in the petrochemical field,” he noted.

In a relevant development in May, specialists of an Iranian knowledge-based company succeeded in building a centrifuge reactor that separates associated petroleum gas (APG).

 “Our knowledge-based company was able to invent a type of reactor to separate associated petroleum gas by amine absorption method,” said Vahid Reza Dehnavi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.

“Fortunately, at the end of last year, this reactor was evaluated and approved by the Oil Industry Research Institute,” he added.

Noting that the APGs have a very low pressure and require equipment with large tools to collect and process them, Dehnavi said, “This centrifuge reactor is capable of processing associated gases at atmospheric pressure, which has resolved the problem in the oil industry.”

APG is a form of natural gas which is found with deposits of petroleum, either dissolved in the oil or as a free "gas cap" above the oil in the reservoir.

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