In a bid to prevent any environmental problem in the surroundings of the area under exploration, Iran’s Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) is halfway through a project developing sensors to detect pollution, spill, or leak in an early stage prior to any environmental calamity.
A major research institute in Iran and the largest of its kind in the Middle East, RIRP is the first Iranian producer of these high-tech devices which in the first generation are portable, used in the areas under operation.
Hamideh Samari Jahromi is the researcher in charge of the project of developing detectors of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and told Mehr News Agency that the hardware of the detectors has been designed and manufactured, and now they are working on the software.
She added the device is a smart system which measures the minute changes of gas density digitally, providing its operator with dynamic reports of variations.
Samari boasted the superiority of the Iranian version highlighting that the foreign models just work for two years while the Iranian ones are going to last more.
Founded in 1959 with the name "NIOC bureau for development and research,” the mission of the bureau was basically limited until the major rebuilding of missions in 1990 with dramatic upgrading of the activities to fundamental, applied and developmental research in oil, natural gas and petro-chemistry.