Mohammad Zali said: "The catalyst loading operation of this
petrochemical project started with loading at the hydrogenation and
desulfurization reactors."
He added: "Sabalan Petrochemical Company, due to the impossibility
of receiving some of Topsoe’s exclusive catalysts due to the sanctions and
despite the possibility of providing similar catalysts from foreign companies
in order to support domestic production, ordered the required catalysts from
the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company (PRTC), The Kharazmi
Technology Development Company and Sarv Oil and Gas Company and fortunately
today with the efforts made local supply of the catalyst is a valuable
achievement for the Iranian petrochemical industry.”
The CEO of Sabalan Petrochemical Company noted that the loading
operation of HDS catalyst made by Kharazmi Technology Development Company had
started, adding the catalyst used in the molybdenum cobalt hydrogenation
reactor, converts sulfur in natural gas (feedstock) into hydrogen sulfide and
allows the adsorption of these compounds in Reactor 1002 (desulfurization
reactor).
Sabalan Petrochemical Company is being built as one of the plans for the
second leap of the petrochemical industry on a 7-hectare land in the South Pars
Special Economic Zone with the aim of producing 1.6 million tons of methanol
annually.