Iranian Firm Produces Precision Instruments to Control Temperature, Pressure in Oil, Gas Industries

According to the company's technologists, using this system, variables like temperature, pressure, and fluid flow can be controlled in sensitive industries like oil, gas, mining, and power plants.

Saeed Shafi’yee, the managing director of the company, elaborated on the performance of the positioner, saying, “The positioner is known as a precision instrument. Control valves are one of the important equipment that control variables like temperature, pressure, and fluid flow with the help of the positioner. In other words, the positioner is installed on the control valves and the operating range of the valve is determined based on its settings.”

“In sensitive industries like oil, gas, mining and power plants, the company's devices have not only replaced foreign brands costing thousands of dollars, but have also shown better performance in some harsh climatic conditions like the Ahvaz power plant,” he added.

“We have produced a device that works continuously for two years without the need for recalibration, while famous European brand models would fail after 6 months,” Shafi’ee said.

In a relevant development in 2024, researchers at an Iranian knowledge-based company had also succeeded in producing 32 gate valves needed in oil industry.

“We are a manufacturer of all kinds of valves needed by the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. The latest achievement of our company has been production of as many as 32 units of 20-inch gate valves of class 2,500 which have been used in development plan of Isfahan Oil Refinery. The achievement is considered as one of the largest valve-production projects of the oil companies in Iran,” Massoud Jalali, a representative of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.

Noting that valves are produced by using the open mold forging method due to the type of their structure, he said, “Open mold forging is a hot forming process in which metal is formed by hammering and pressing between flat or simple molds.”

“Gate valves are installed at the outlet of the distillery tower and are used to cut off and connect the flow. Also, the operation of these devices takes place at a temperature of 400 degrees (Fahrenheit) and 250 (Bar) of pressure; therefore, we should use heat-resistant materials in its construction,” Jalali said.

He explained that stainless steel materials should be used in metallurgy, saying, “This material is one of the most basic elements of gate valves and makes the valves resistant to heat.”

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