Tehran’s Academic Center for Education, Culture, Research Unveils 2 Technological Chemical Products
These products were developed by researchers from the Center's Chemical Process Design Research Group and include a scale inhibitor for the sugar industry and a scale remover for diesel power plants.
“These two products are designed to address one of the important challenges facing the country's industries, namely controlling and removing scale in heat transfer equipment, and achieving the technical know-how to produce them is an effective step on the path to industrial self-sufficiency,” said Zohreh Taherkhani, the deputy director of Research and Technology at Tehran’s Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research.
She explained that the scale inhibitor was designed at the request of one of the country's sugar factories to prevent scale formation in evaporators and has shown remarkable performance in operational tests, adding, “This material has been able to meet the needs of the sugar industry well by complying with the requirements of the food industry without damaging the equipment.”
“The second product, a special descaler for diesel engine intercoolers, was also produced at the request of one of the country's power plants and, in performance tests, succeeded in completely removing the internal deposits of the intercooler. This achievement plays an important role in improving the cooling process and increasing the operational efficiency of diesel engines,” Taherkhani said.
In a relevant development in August, Iranian researchers at University of Tehran’s Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research succeeded in producing sediment-inhibiting and de-sedimenting substances to settle the problems of the sugar and electricity industries.
“Our researchers were able to formulate two sediment-inhibiting and de-sedimenting chemicals for the sugar production industries and diesel power plants to solve the problems of the industries,” said Omid Shojayee, a faculty member of University of Tehran’s Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research.
He explained that the process of producing sugar from beet or sugarcane syrup requires syrup concentration operations, adding that during the evaporation process, large amounts of sediment are formed on the internal surfaces of the evaporator, and removing sediment is one of the problems of this industry.
“To prevent sediment from forming on the surfaces of the evaporator, sediment-inhibiting substances are used,” Shojayee said.
Noting that a special descaling agent is used to remove sediment from inside the intercooler, he said, "At the request of one of the diesel power plants in Alborz Province (near Tehran), a suitable descaling agent was formulated to remove sediment from inside the intercooler, and in a performance test at the power plant, it performed very well, removing sediment from the intercooler."
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