   | INSTITUTE OF PETPOLEUM CHEMISTRY,
SIBERIAN DIVISION OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Established in August 1968. SHPERE OF ACTIVITY Sphere of activity: fundamental investigations into oil composition and properties; physico-chemistry of oil systems and surface phenomena; information systems on oil chemistry and geochemistry, ecology, advanced technologies to enhance oil recovery; for oil production, preparation, transportation and refining; technological aspects of environmental protection: cleaning of water and soil surfaces from oil and oil products; combined purification of industrial sewage from oil products, phenols and other organic pollutants and from heary metals; devices for scientific researches: densimeters, microcalorimeters, viscometers, cryostates, oil product quality analyzers; materials from products of oil, coal, peat, and other natural raw material processing: inhibitors, additives, dyes, photosemiconductors, lubricants, sensitizers, flotation reagents, bioactive substances, etc. MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS Researchers of the Institute have developed the complex approach to oil investigation, have found original methods for separation, fractioning, and analysis of oils, bitumens, and other natural substances, have created the integrated geoinformational system, including geochemical and chemical characteristics of oils of West Siberia, data bases on geological, technological, and ecological information about oil and gas bearing territories of the Tomsk region, have completed the computer albums. Developed is a number of new advanced technologies of oil production, refining, transportation and to enhance oil recovery. The large-scale tests of technologies have been carried out in oil fields of West Siberia. The Institute solves a number of ecological problems: environmental analysis, detection of pollutants, purification of territories (soils, waters) from oil and oil products, heavy metals, radionuclides, dioxine, and other harmful substances. The technology of water purification from oil products was recommended by the Corporation TOMSKNEFT’ for a wide use. Mastered is the experimental production of adsorbents. Modern equipment, accreditted laboratories, methods attestested at the international level allow the analytical monitoring of oil and oil products, industrial, surface, underground, and drinking waters, and air to be conducted including that for the purposes of certification and arbitration. Unique museum is created in the Institute, containing more than 3000 oil samples. A block of model installation allows mastering of experimental productions and testing of new technologies. There are full-time and correspondence post-graduate cources, dissertation council at the Institute. Every year 3-4 theses for candidate’s degree are defended. The Institute is in successfull collaboration with foreign scientists, firms of USA, France, Slovakia, China, Vietnam, and other countries all over the world. PERSONNEL AND LEADERS The staff is 250, including 50 candidates of sciences, 6 doctors of sciences, 1 academician of the International Academy of Informatization, 3 correspondence members of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 6 members of the New York Academy of Sciences. Head of the Institute - Sirotkina Ekaterina Egorovna, phone (3822) 258623. Deputy director - Altunina Lyubov’ Konstantinovna, phone (3822) 258146. ADDRESS 3 Akademichesky ave., Tomsk, Russia, 634055. Telephone: (3822) 258623. Fax: (3822) 258457. Telex: 128112 PTB SU. E-mail:canc@ihn.tomsk.su. |
