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Head of the Laboratory Prof. Anatoly K. Golovko E-mail: golovko@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 491851; 491879 |
The Laboratory of Hydrocarbons AND HIGH-Molecular Petroleum Compounds
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Head of the Laboratory Prof. Anatoly K. Golovko E-mail: golovko@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 491851; 491879 |
Research fields:
Establishment of the regularities governing the group and molecular compositions of petroleum saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons, resins and asphaltenes, study of the distribution of hydrocarbon biomarkers in crude oils and dispersed organic matter (DOM) of different stratigraphic complexes and lithofacies formations, revealing new geochemical criteria to justify the scientific bases of the pathways of naphthides genesis in the Earth entrails, to improve the efficiency of exploration and prospecting works for oil and gas.
Study of the processes of the conversion of the dispersed organic matter of the rocks into the components of natural hydrocarbon systems.
Revealing the general relationships between the chemical composition of petroleum hydrocarbons and heterorganic compounds, structural parameters of resins and asphalts and the conditions of the occurrence and formation of natural hydrocarbon accumulations.
Development of the scientific fundamentals of the creation of novel technologies of the processing of fossil fuels based on the application of the action of thermal, mechanical energies and active reagents.
Novel methods are developed for:
an increase in the yield of distillate fractions by 20-30% at the processing of heavy oils and no less than by 30-50% at the processing of crude oil residues (masut, tar);
a joint processing of oil residues and low-grade coals yielding motor and boiler fuels, as well as the feedstock for bitumen production;
crude oil demulsifying.
The Laboratory carries out:
1. The determination of the content of organic carbon and bitumoids in rocks (cores); study of the biomarkers composition, features of the molecular composition of the hydrocarbons and group composition of high-molecular compounds of oils and DOM, the determination of the type of the initial organic matter, biodegradation degree, hypergenic and catagenic maturity of organic matter and crude oils, as well as the other indices necessary to assess facies conditions of the accumulation of the oil-source rocks, migration ways, physical state and resources of hydrocarbons in the deposits.
2. The tests of the petroleum products (gasolines, propellants, diesel and boiler fuels, lubricants and industrial oils, bitumens) for their compliance with the requirements of technical conditions (TU) and State Standards (GOST) followed by the issuance of the protocols (Accreditation Certificate N RU.0001.510476).
3. The study of the composition and properties of the oils, gas condensates, their commercial mixtures and their fractions to assess the potential content of petroleum products in crude oil and their operation properties, to give the recommendations to optimise the rational directions of refining and production of commercial petroleum products, to prepare the data for designing the installations intended for oil refining and fractions ennobling.
4. The appraisal of the methods and engineering solutions for refining of the hydrocarbons and manufacturing of commercial petroleum products.
Main achievements:
The procedures of the quantitative isolation of bi-, tri and polycyloaromatic hydrocarbons have been developed.
The main regularities governing the individual and group compositions of crude oil alkanes, cyclanes and arenes depending on the geochemical type and occurrence conditions of the crude oil have been revealed.
The general regularities governing the changes in the most important individual parameters of the composition of organic matter of the rocks depending on the degree of thermal maturity of enclosing deposits.
Novel fractionation schemes and methods of integral group analysis of high-molecular crude oil components have been developed.
The main features of the molecular structure and macrostructure of high-molecular (resin-asphaltene) crude oil components, their structural-genetic relationships with crude oil hydrocarbons and low-molecular heteroatomic compounds have been established. The relationships governing the changes in the composition, molecular structure and macrostructure of crude oil resins and asphaltenes depending on natural and technogenic factors have been revealed.
Fundamentally new ozone technologies of crude oil demulsifying, enhancing the yield of the distillate fractions during petroleum refining, purification and regeneration of petroleum distillates and those of the production of a wide range of novel useful products from heavy petroleum feedstock have been suggested and patented.
The Laboratory numbers 15 employees, including 3 Professors, 5 Doctors of Sciences and 7 post-graduate students.