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Lyubov K. Altunina Director of the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS E-mail: alk@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7(3822) 491623; 491146 Fax: 49-14-57 |
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Lyubov K. Altunina Director of the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS E-mail: alk@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7(3822) 491623; 491146 Fax: 49-14-57 |
Lyubov K. Altunina was born on November 27, 1944, in the Voronezh Oblast in the family of a medical officer. In 1962. she graduated with honour from secondary school in the Khabarovsk Kray, in 1967 she graduated from the Chemical Faculty of the Leningrad University having obtained a distinction.
After the study at the post-graduate courses, she worked at the Ulyanovsk Higher Military School. In 1981 she began working in Tomsk, at the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry as a Senior Researcher. She is the Director of the Institute since 1997.
Professor L. K. Altunina is the Head of the Chair of High-Molecular Compounds and Petroleum Chemistry at the Tomsk State University.
Lyubov K. Altunina is an outstanding scientist in the field of enhanced oil recovery, physical chemistry of the disperse systems and surface phenomena. She is a co-author of 255 scientific publications, 87 among them were published in the last 5 years, including a monograph entitled 'Enhanced Oil Recovery using Surfactant Systems', and of more than 50 patents. The results of the research were many times presented at the International and All-Russian Conferences and Symposia, Councils and Boards of the Academy of Sciences.
Research carried out by Lyubov K. Altunina concerns with the solution of one of the more important economic problems: enhanced oil recovery using physicochemical methods. She suggested a novel scientific approach to the development of the efficient oil-displacing systems based on the surfactants and alkaline buffer solutions. A novel promising concept has been developed of application of energy of the reservoir or heat-carrier injected to generate the oil-displacing fluid, gels or sols in the reservoir. Under her direction a complex of original devices and methods intended to study the physicochemical and rheological properties of surface and bulk properties in the system 'oil-rock-surfactant solution' has been created. On the basis of numerous laboratory experiments and bend tests the physicochemical criteria to select the EOR systems have been established taking into account the geological and physical parameters of the oil fields. High-efficiency EOR systems intended to be used at the West-Siberian oil fields have been developed. Seven novel commercial EOR technologies have been developed, which possess a reliable raw materials base because the products of the large-tonnage home industry and industrial waste are applied.
The technologies of the enhanced oil recovery and simulation of production have been commercially tested on 23 pilot areas of the oil fields of West Siberia and in Komi Republic. In 1996-1999 EOR technologies have successfully passed the field tests at 'White Tiger' oil field on the shelf of the South-Chinese Sea (Vietnam). Lyubov K. Altunina was an immediate organiser of the pilot works at the oil fields of Tomsk and Tyumen Oblasts. The technologies appreciated by 'Nizhnevartovskneftegaz', 'Langepasneftegaz', 'Krasnoleninskneftegaz', 'Tomskneft', 'Yuganskneftegaz' have been recommended for commercial application.
Using these technologies over 1.5 million tons of additional oil was produced in the last 5 years by Oil Companies 'Lukoil' and 'Yukos'.
Lyubov K. Altunina was rewarded with the Order of Honour for the advances in research activity which allowed creating novel commercial technologies of enhanced oil recovery at the oil fields of the West Siberia. She is a Laureate of the Prize of the Central Council of the All-Russian Organization of the Inventors and Rationalisers. In 1997 the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded a State Research Grant to her. The works carried out under the direction of Lyubov K. Altunina won a silver medal of the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements, a diploma at the Competition of Applied Research of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a diploma at the Competition of the Tomsk Scientific Centre SB RAS for implemented developments. In 2000 the Laboratory of Colloidal Oil Chemistry headed by Lyubov K. Altunina became the Laureate of the Tomsk Oblast Competition in the field of Research and Education. Lyubov Altunina is a winner of the Golden ROSING Prize for the year 2002.
Lyubov K. Altunina successfully combines the research and organisational work. She is a member of the Council for Petrochemistry RAS, the United Scientific Council for Chemical Sciences SB RAS, the Council of the Russian Intersectorial Scientific and Engineering Complex 'Oil Recovery', the Chair of the Dissertation and Scientific Councils of the Institute, a member of European Association of Geophysics and Engineers, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the 'Chemical Technologies Journal' regional centre.