Iranian Researchers Produce Strategic Petrochemical Equipment

“The successful manufacture of Knit Mesh in the petrochemical caustic concentration unit is a major step towards materializing the country's knowledge-based economy and industrial self-sufficiency,” Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Safi, the president of Islamic Azad University’s Dezfoul branch, told ANA.

Also, Reza Poultangari, the deputy director of the Field and Activities of the Faculty of Industrial Construction and Technologies of Dezfoul branch, said that the successful production of Knit Mesh in the caustic concentration unit of the petrochemical company is a big step towards materializing the country’s knowledge-based economy and industrial self-sufficiency.

“This project showed that this university unit enjoys the capability to achieve a strategic technology from the design and simulation stages to construction and operation,” he underlined.

“This equipment is highly sensitive in a way that the smallest error in design or calculations can lead to corrosion of downstream equipment, a sharp drop in performance or even a complete stoppage of the production process. With precise calculations and engineered design, we were able to minimize the risk of the project,” Poultangari said.

“The operational capacity of the equipment is over 260 tons per hour,” he noted.

The knit mesh unit plays a critical role in the evaporation phase of caustic concentration, where steam generated carries fine alkaline droplets.

Without effective filtration, these droplets can corrode downstream equipment, contaminate condensates, raise maintenance costs, and reduce overall process efficiency.

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