Mehdi Dej-Hosseini said these projects aim to complete product value chains, improve purification processes, address operational bottlenecks, promote digital transformation and manage physical assets. He said there was. Each megaproject includes over 20 subprojects.
Dej-Hosseini explained that in recent months, the Technology and Innovation Committee, chaired by CEOs, including CEOs and senior executives, and academic and industrial experts, has been formed at NIORDC. The committee has identified five megaprojects to address key challenges in the refinery sector and advance the technology.
The project focuses on completing product value chains, strengthening refining processes, solving operational constraints, implementing digital transformation, preventive maintenance, building resilience, and managing physical assets such as clean fuel. Masu.
Each megaproject is split into preferred subprojects based on input from refineries and subsidiaries. Priority projects approved by the Technology and Innovation Committee will move into the contract signing and execution phase.
Dej-Hosseini highlighted NIORDC’s 20 years of research and technology development history, and its efforts to meet industry needs through domestic expertise and national scientific capabilities.
One notable achievement is the development of catalysts for residual desulfurization (RCD) units that have reached commercialization and are now operational at Shazand refineries.
Another important project includes technical know-how for converting fuel oil into needle coke and sponge cola developed by the Coke Institute’s laboratory.
Despite limited access to sanctions and foreign expertise, Shazand and Bandar Abbas refineries successfully advanced this technology.
Bandar Abbas Refinery is currently building a process unit for Mazutl’s Sponge Coke, but the needle coke unit at Shazand’s refinery is set up to start operation after obtaining environmental permits. It’s been done.
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