Sharif University to Establish Petrochemical Innovation, Technology Chamber
Optimizing energy, water, environmental, and nature-friendly products to meet the challenges and innovative and technological needs of the petrochemical industry is a plan predicted to be carried out in the Petrochemical Innovation and Technology Chamber.
The most important activities of this chamber include designing, manufacturing, and localizing services or products related to the company's business, holding networking events to select teams or technology companies with ideas or products, creating a suitable infrastructure for the activities of teams or technology companies with ideas or products, creating new markets for the company to enter new fields, creating an infrastructure for the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and digitalization technologies in the petrochemical industry, and creating a basis for conducting research projects to maximize the capacity of the university and providing research results to Karoun company to utilize information in the implementation of projects.
Other areas of activity of this chamber include providing acceleration services for the growth of technology teams and companies located in the chamber, holding scientific and educational events to strengthen skilled human resources, including faculty and company personnel, using the university's hardware and software capacities to meet the company's needs, providing technical and specialized human resources for use in company projects using the university's human resources capacity, and cooperation between companies and universities to attract the financial resources needed for the chamber's objectives.
In a relevant development in January, an Iranian professor at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of Amirkabir University of Technology had also announced launch of a petrochemical industry clinic at the university in cooperation with Zagros Petrochemical Company.
“Increasing productivity, reducing energy and gas consumption, moving towards green methanol, blue methanol, and the methanol conversion chain are among the frameworks of cooperation between Zagros Petrochemical Company and Amirkabir University of Technology,” Mohammad Rahmani said.
He added that good opportunity has been created in cooperation between Amirkabir University of Technology and Zagros Petrochemical Company to establish a petrochemical industry clinic to use the capacities towards the development of innovation and technology ecosystem.
“Zagros Petrochemical Company enjoys a set of different technologies in the field of chemical engineering, which include various sectors of gas purification, synthesis gas production, methanol production and processing, and exports, Rahmani said, adding, “A new thing that this company has recently done is to move towards supplying feedstock from flare gases..
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