Creation
For the Industry
Projects R & D
During the last three decades we have carried out numerous services, teaching-training of staff and consultancies for the national and international productive sector. Below we present the areas we have worked on for some of our industrial partners:
Services, Consulting and Research-Development Contracts
Complex Formulations for Oil Applications
– Demulsification
– Dehydration
– Desalination
– Low voltage
– Damage remediation
– Water-based, oil-based, foam drilling fluids
– Improved recovery due to low voltage (ASP)
Clients:
- INTEVEP- PDVSA
- CHEVRON-TEXACO
- ELF-TOTAL
- SCHULMBERGER
- BAKER HUGHES DRILLING FLUIDS
- LIPESA
- RESINAS MULTIPLES
- SIMSA
- WEATHERFORD
- IFPEN
- CEPSA
- ICP-ECOPETROL
– Nanoemulsions
Clients:
- ENITECNOLGIE Italia (microemulsified fuel)
- VALLEE Brazil (emulsions for veterinary vaccines)
- INICA (spontaneous emulsification of pesticide concentrates)
- MARIE (cosmetic emulsions – sun creams, cream with caffeine)
– Emulsiones de hidrocarburos pesados para transporte o como combustibles
Clientes:
- INTEVEP-PDVSA (orimulsion ®), Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas México (incorporación de agua en combustible residual)
- PLUSPETROL (emulsión de crudos pesados), HRA Consultores y clientes en Finlandia, USA, Colombia, Filipinas (emulsiones combustibles)
- PERENCO Perú (transporte emulsionado)
– Routine analytical services
– Determination of hydrophilicity (HLB)
– Characterization of a surfactant
– Measurement of droplet or particle size (5 nm – 100 μm)
– Reometry of complex fluids
– Characterization of production waters: particle size, crude and solid densities, suspended solids and sedimentable solids
– Characterization of distillery effluents (vinasse)
Clients:
- PDVSA
- ENI
- APCHEM
- TIVENCA
- Destilerías Campo Elías
- Laboratorios FARCO
- LIPESA
– Complex formulations in other applications
– Silicone emulsions
– Laminated emulsions
– Foam(y) cement
– Asphalt emulsions
– Cleaning and disinfectant formulations
– Derivatization of lignin for various uses
– Toothpaste
– Shampoos
– Food emulsions, nanoemulsions for fermentation reactions
– Vehicles for medicines and perfumes, microcapsules
– Solubilization in microemulsion
– Water-based emulsified paints, bentonites and organophilic lignites.
Clientes:
- RHODIA
- LAFARGE
- PROCTER & GAMBLE
- COGNIS
- AKZO-NOBEL
- UNILEVER
- ECOLAB
- SANOFI
- DSM
- SC JONHSON
- GIVAUDAN
- PULPACA
- ONICA
- PROMIVECA
- VENEZOLANA DE PINTURAS
- SOMA CHEMYCAL
- DEWITT
- Alimentos POLAR
- QUIMICAR
Partnerships
Work
networks
The FIRP Lab Network has prestigious associated laboratories at the University of Los Andes, in Venezuela and around the world (North America, Europe, Middle East).
Laboratory
suppliers
The FIRP Laboratory uses a wide range of reliable suppliers, both of chemical inputs and specialized equipment.
Laboratory
agreements
The FIRP Laboratory is associated with a large number of academic institutions for the teaching of industrial and applied chemistry, associated with Surfactants, Formulation and related aspects.
Industrial partners
Certain companies with which we have worked have become industrial partners of the FIRP Laboratory. They are more than our clients, they are our privileged partners, and as such we offer a special service, both in terms of benefits, as well as in terms of priority of service and cost.
Our partners are in various sectors:
- Chemical industry
- Oil industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Paper industry
- among other…
We are generally occupied for several months in certain activities such as the development of new products or certain types of personnel training, and we have important commitments to train researchers, particularly at postgraduate degrees. The point is that it has been difficult at times to serve our industrial clients with the urgency of the case, and we have had to set priorities in service. On the other hand, we have verified that a company with which we have a continuous relationship over time knows us better and knows how to take better advantage of us, and for us it is a company with which we can anticipate needs and improve working conditions, the efficiency of service and associated cost.