NKPI

Main research areas

MAIN DIRECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF THE INSTITUTE

  • Study of Azerbaijan crude oils, development of scientific bases for their refining with the aim of obtaining new fuels and oils
  • Creation of new technologies and catalysts for oil and gas-refining and petro-chemistry
  • Conduction of fundamental researches in the field of petrochemical synthesis, catalysis, orga­nic and physical chemistry, chemistry of high-molecular compounds
  • Creation of polyfunctional corrosion inhibitors and various chemical reagents
  • Working - out of perspective integrated schemes of development of petroleum refining and petrochemical complexes of Azerbaijan
  • Technology of obtaining biofuels - alternative sources of energy
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies
  • Development of methods and technologies for utilization of blown-out gases contributing to “green house” effect
  • Ecological problems of oil refining and petrochemistry
  • Research on the development of alternative sources of raw materials for the petrochemical in­dustry
  • Use of supercritical fluids in the processes of oil refining and oil fractions
  • Development of the ionic-liquid technologies and catalysts for petrochemical processes

 

FUNDAMENTAL WORKS AND RESEARCHES THAT LAID BASES FOR NEW SCIENTIFIC DIRECTIONS

  • Fundamental researches of academician Yu.H.Mammadaliyev on involving natural gas into petro­chemical synthesis using alkylation process and technology of “fluidized bed” catalyst;
  • Development of scientific foundations of technology for obtaining vinyl chloride by ethylene chlorination in “fluidized bed” of catalyst;
  • Theoretical foundations of estimating efficiency of heterogeneous contact-catalytic processes and various technological systems using finely dispersed catalysts;
  • Oxidative dehydrogenation of C4-C5 olefins to diene hydrocarbons in the reactors functioning with sectional feeding of oxygen;
  • Scientific foundations and technology of oxidative ammonolysis of aromatic hydrocarbons;
  • Studing and development of processing technologies of Azerbaijan’s unique oils;
  • Creation of the database on physico-chemical indices of Azerbaijan oils and development of scientific foundations of oil refining with the purpose of obtaining fuels, oil and raw materials for the secondary petroleum refining processes;
  • Scientific foundations of development of new kinds of ester synthetic lubricating oils, meeting requirements of military machinery;
  • Scientific foundations and methods of preparing a number of small-tonnage products: reagents for oil production, new fragrant substances, sterically hindered phenols, optically- and surface-active substances, additives to oils, polymeric materials and fuels;
  • New reactive oligomers, petroleum-based polymer resins, new modified phenol-formaldehyde resins and compositions based on them, linear and cyclic oligomers and cooligomers of dienes;
  • Scientific foundations and technology of the process of dewaxing light oil products with iso­propyl alcohol solution of carbamide;
  • Scientific foundations of petrochemical variant of low-temperature destructive conversions and ennobling as well as catalytic cracking processes of petroleum hydrocarbons;
  • Scientific foundations of synthesis and preparation of polyfunctional corrosion inhibitors for media with unusually high amounts of H2S and CO2;
  • Scientific foundations of catalytic modification of aromatic hydrocarbon structure of petroleum oil with ethylene and its oligomers;
  • Synthesis of new precursor complexes of transitional metals for the processes of metal-complex and metal-organic catalysis including functional catalyst stabilizers for the processes of  dienes polymerization;
  • Metallinium-ionic mechanisms and polyfunctional metal-complex catalysis of oligomerization and polymerization processes;
  • Petroleum luminophores and accumulators of solar energy;
  • Scientific foundations and technology of conjugated process of dewaxing and selective purify­cation of distillate oil fractions with the purpose of obtaining oils and paraffin with usage of the same solvent;
  • Scientific foundations of the process technology and a new express-method for deasphaltization and demetallization of crude oil and petroleum residues with usage of CO2 of supercritical parameters;
  • New polyfunctional catalysts for the processes of dehydrogenation, isomerization, cyclohexa­merization of methane, alkylation of benzene with propane  and photochemical activation of hydrocarbons and their oxygen-containing derivatives;
  • New catalytic processes of hydrocarbons conversions with usage of CO2 as an oxidant;
  • Functional catalyst on the basis of Al2O3 modified with Re, Ni, Ir and  other metals by vapor - phase method for the process of hydrocracking of hydrocarbons  carried out at low temperature and pressure;
  • Scientific foundations of obtaining synthetic naphthenic acids on the basis of petroleum hydrocarbons;
  • Scientific foundations, catalyzers and their modifiers for selective oligomerization of ethylene to narrow α-olefin fractions, synthetic oligoalkylbenzene oils and codimerization of vinylaromatic monomers with lower olefins;
  • New technology of obtaining light oil products through refining mazout by use of catalyst suspended in CO2 atmosphere;
  • Conception of perspective development of oil and gas refining and petrochemical industry of Azerbaijan.
  • Scientific foundations of new technologies for obtaining a number of monomers-divinyl, iso­prene, vinyl chloride, cycloalkyl acrylate, cyclopentene, cyclopentadiene, norbornene and others, polyfunctional macromonomers on the basis of petrochemical feedstocks;
  • Scientific foundations and technologies of purposeful synthesis of ethers of functionally-subs­tituted phenols, fatty aromatic alcohols and glycols, creation of new effective and ecologically-safe, biologically-active chemicals based on them for protecting plants and animals from pests and diseases;
  • Scientific foundations of effective integrated schemes of refining liquid products of pyrolysis in different variants (thermal, in the presence of initiator and Al-containing complex catalyst);
  • Scientific foundations and catalysts for selective hydrovinylation of vinylaromatic hydro­carbons;
  • Investigations in the field of ionic-liquid catalysis of oligomerization and polymerization pro­cesses and ionic-liquid purification of petroleum fractions;
  • Scientific foundations of synthesis and application of novel petroleum-recovering, petroleum collecting and petroleum dispersing reagents;
  • Development of scientific bases and catalysts of thermocatalytical decomposition of water and its combined conversion with CO2 to hydrocarbons and their derivatives;
  • Utilization of fullerene nanotubes and their functionalized derivatives in the processes of hydrocarbons oxidation and their inhibition;
  • New conception on conjugated oxidation, acid-base and metal-organic mechanisms in catalysis of petrochemical processes.
  • Establishment of the catalysts for fixation of CO2 into organic compounds specially for obtain­ning alkyl-polyalkylcarbonates, and also iniferters-catalysts for the synthesis of poly-alkyl­carboxylates.
  • New heterogenized catalyst systems allowing the conducting of polymerization of diene hyd­rocarbons not only in mass and in solvent medium but also in the gas phase. 
  • Scientific fundamentals of obtaining the high-octane component to the gasoline from the gases of catalytic cracking.