The Downstream Oil Industry Research and Development Center, comprising five research centers, two research institutes, and the Gas Processing Institute, is the largest research Center of RIPI in terms of human resources and infrastructure. This Center operates in line with RIPI’s vision, overarching goals, policies, and missions, following defined strategies.

Vision:

– Fostering independence and eliminating the dependency of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries by developing and localizing essential technical expertise

– Generating wealth by integrating the technology development and commercialization value chain, leveraging a network-oriented strategy and harnessing both domestic and global capacities

– Driving impact in the industry through research and development and delivering innovative technological solutions

– Enhancing competitiveness through organizational agility and cost management

Mission:

Creating lasting value for stakeholders by advancing technologies and providing innovative solutions, founded on core competencies and empowered by open innovation frameworks at both national and international levels.

Field of Activities of the Research and Development Campus for Downstream Oil Industries

Some of the most important capabilities of this campus include:

The downstream campus consists of 5 research institutes and 2 centers as follows:
  • Research Institute for the Development of Oil Refining and Processing Technologies
  • Research Institute for the Development of Gas Processing and Transmission Technologies
  • Engineering Research Institute
  • Catalyst Technologies Development Research Institute
  • Research Institute for the Development of Chemical, Polymeric and Petrochemical Technologies
  • Nano and Carbon Technologies Research and Development Center
  • Kermanshah Petroleum Technology Research and Development Center

 

Numerous specialized laboratories operate in the following fields:

  • Oil refining and processing
  • Gas processing and transmission
  • Catalyst Technologies
  • Chemical technologies
  • Polymer
  • Petrochemicals
  • Nano and carbon

 

Each of the campus research institutes has its own specialized pilots, whose most important services are as follows:
  • Testing and evaluating gas sweetening solvents at operating temperature and pressure conditions in a gas sweetening pilot.
    Testing of used solvent recovery in a used solvent recovery pilot in order to obtain optimal operating conditions.
  • Absorbent testing and determination of adsorption and regeneration parameters with industrial feed
  • Formulated solvent manufacturing system for use in gas refineries
  • Hot plasma pilot to test the disposal of municipal and industrial waste
  • Pilot Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using a fixed bed reactor
  • Pilot Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using a slurry bed reactor
  • Synthesis gas production pilot using a fixed bed reactor and a combined methane reforming process with steam and carbon dioxide
  • Cold flow pilot to study the hydrodynamic behavior and heat transfer of a slurry bed reactor.
    Syngas production pilot through partial oxidation in a non-catalytic porous medium.
  • Hydrotreating of petroleum fractions (light naphtha, heavy naphtha, kerosene, diesel)
  • Sulfur adsorption (ZnO adsorbent)
  • Steam methane reforming
  • Low Temperature Shift (LTS)
  • High Temperature Shift (HTS)
  • Catalytic conversion, isomerization and aromatization of naphtha

  • Development, localization, and commercialization of processes required by the oil industry to improve quality and create added value
  • Development, localization, and commercialization of technologies for manufacturing materials and equipment needed by the oil industry
  • Providing technological services, resolving problems and bottlenecks, and improving oil industry processes
  • Development, localization, and commercialization of new technologies needed by the industry in order to create added value

  • Achieving technical knowledge for producing stable nanofluids in reservoir conditions to increase oil reservoir recovery
  • Making lightweight cement slurry using indigenous microblock admixture (Ripiblock)
  • Licensing, design and commissioning of the Demercaptanization Unit for Gas Condensate (DMC3) in Phases 2 and 3 of South Pars
  • Providing knowledge and designing a mercaptan concentration unit for odorant production
  • Providing a license and basic design for the sulfur recovery unit of Ilam Petrochemical
  • Providing a license and designing a needle coke production plan for Imam Khomeini Oil Refining Company in Shazand
  • Providing a license and designing a needle coke production plan for Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company
  • Quality monitoring of oil mulch used in mulching operations in 1401 and providing solutions to improve field performance
  • Production and construction of materials and systems for collecting oil pollution from the water surface
  • (Canvas, pads and rope skimmer)
  • Developing technical knowledge for manufacturing RCD and hydrocracking catalysts
  • Transfer of technical knowledge of well valve sealing grease
  • Manufacturing and localization of various types of Claus catalysts (titania catalysts) used in sulfur recovery units (SRU)
  • Joint development of technical knowledge for the manufacture and evaluation of 13X zeolite powder and the production of 13X molecular sieves
  • Transfer of suspension breaking know-how on an industrial scale
  • Construction of a new device for analyzing sulfur and mercury compounds in natural gas
  • Production of required nanomaterials

1-Integration of CCSS with RIPI’s DCU designs

2-Selection of Demulsifiers by Bottle Testing for the Oil Treatment Facilities of Aban and West-Paydar Oilfields
3-Supply of know-how, Technology & Technical Assistance on Odorant Process (Duration Extension + Extra Activities)
4-Technological Collaboration Agreement for Development & Demonstration of ISO Container Type Small LNG Plant
5-Engineering & Consultancy services for Demercaptanization process (DMC) (Duration Extension + Extra Activities)
6-Process design package & license contract for ARU
7-Process design package & license contract for LRU
8-Process design package & license contract for SWS
9-Process design package & license contract for BBU
10-Process design package & license contract for SRU
11-Process design package & license contract for Visbreaker (VIS) Unit
12-Process design package & license contract for Naphtha Block (NCR-NHT units)
13-Process design package & license contract for Diesel Hydrotreater (DHT) Unit
14-DMD – DMC Extension Addendum
15-Delayed Coking
16-Feasibility Study of Petroleum Refinery, Barru
17-Basic design engineering package and license contract for DMC process in phase 12 of South Pars gas field
18-De-mercaptanization Process for Condensate and LPG treatment in South Pars Phases (2, 3), (9, 10), 14 and (22, 23, 24)