Knowledge-Based Firms Help STPC Achieve Catalyst Self-Sufficiency 

Catalysts needed by Shahid Tondgouyan Petrochemical Company in Khuzestan Province are being produced in collaboration with domestic knowledge-based firms, the head of STPC’s Research and Technology Office.
“The company has prioritized the indigenization of at least 12 catalysts, chemicals, heat transfer fluids, molecular sieves and textile oil for use in different units of the company during petrochemical processes,” Abdollah Sheikhnejad Moqaddam was also quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s news agency Shana.
A catalyst speeds up a chemical reaction but is not consumed by it. Most solid catalysts are metals or oxides, sulfides and halides of metallic elements and semi-metallic elements such as boron, aluminum and silicon.
A heat transfer fluid is a gas or liquid that takes part in heat transfer by serving as an intermediary in cooling on one side of a process, transporting and storing thermal energy, and heating on another side of a process.