A Research team at the University of Technology gained a patent from the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control in the Ministry of Planning for ((design and manufacture of low-cost system to reduce the viscosity of Iraqi crude oil and improve the flow of pipelines))

The patent contained reducing the viscosity of Iraqi crude oil by shedding an electric field of a certain intensity through the design and manufacture of low-cost electrical capacitors placed inside the pipe used to shed the field on crude oil, which formed the insulation material between the electrodes of the electrolytic capacitance and composed of a perforated and coated metal plate The number and diameter of the holes are designed to allow the oil to be arranged in short chains so that the flow and friction resistance between the fluid layers and the pipe walls are reduced and so that the viscosity is reduced also. Optimal conditions were found which were 32 seconds operating time, 188 volts and 6.11 cm for distance between the capacitance electrodes, the viscosity reduction was more than 40% at 12 ° C that lasted for 11 hours.

The research team contains a teaching staff of Electromechanical Engineering Department and they were:-

1- Assist.Prof. Dr. Rahik I. Ibrahim.

2- Prof. Dr. Manal K. Ouda.

3- Lec. Aus F. Hassan.