Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Aug. 21
By Huseyn Hasanov– Trend:
The Institute of Chemistry under the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan offers effective solutions in the innovative development of local industry, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.
In particular, a method for producing sulfur polymer concrete from gas sulfur and its industrial waste has been developed.
On the basis of local raw materials, construction and road material has been obtained, which has high strength, water resistance, frost resistance, resistance to aggressive environment and high adhesion when used in road surfaces, the report said.
The staff of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan developed a technology of flotation enrichment of phosphorus anhydride mined at the Durnaly site of the Gaurdak-Karlyuk deposit to phosphate flour with a 22 percent content of the substance at the Turkmenabat chemical plant.
With the participation of the Institute’s staff, the tests of the composition of fossil iron ore from the Gizilkaya area were conducted and the possibilities of its use as additives in the production of high-grade sulphate-resistant cement were studied. Thanks to such cooperation, the Turkmen industrial plants could refuse to purchase this component from abroad.
The work is underway on the creation of high-strength cement grades with the use of local mineral raw materials.
The Institute’s laboratories, as part of the state import-substitution program, introduced a number of technical conditions at the plants of the Turkmenhimiya state concern that made it possible to use local mineral and chemical raw materials.
For example, the possibility of using monoethanolamine waste - an alkaline reagent, obtained as waste in the production of urea - has been studied at the Maryazot Production Association. Aqueous solutions of this oily liquid increase the alkaline properties of drilling fluids, the report said.
In addition, the scientists developed an innovative technology for the production of potassium iodate, and also presented a feasibility study of an industrial-testing unit for the annual production of 500 tons of iodized table salt of the Extra grade and 4,500 tons of tablet salt at the Guvlyduz Combine.
Employees of the institute together with industrial producers develop environmentally safe technological processes for companies of various forms of ownership, as well as foreign companies, according to the newspaper.
Activities to study the composition and properties of hydromineralic raw materials made it possible to develop a technology for the production of calimagnesium, magnesium chlorate, edible salt, epsomite, crystalline bischofite, potassium sulfate and magnesium oxide, as well as other minerals from surface and buried brines of the Garabogazkol Bay in the Caspian Sea.