REVIEW OF WORKS OF THE PETROLEUM INSTITUTE, ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USSR

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• Publication Date: February 13, 1952
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REVIEW OF "WORKS OF THE PETD;OLEUM INSTITUTE,
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USSR"
50X1-HUM
The following is a Russian book review of Trudy Instituta Nefti
Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol I, No 2, 150, edited by Academician S. S.
Nametkin o c w ngrad, 340 pp, 2,000 copies printed, price
$22.80, 7
The current volume of Works of the Petroleum Institute, Academy of Sciences
USSR contains contributions by the institute's staff in three fundamental fields:
rljthe origin of aineral fuels and of their occurrences; (2) development and eX-
ploitation of petroleum occurrences; and (3) chemistry and technology of petroleum.
This collection of papers contains work summarizing the scientific results
obtai.. in field investigations carried out by the institute over the past years.
An article by S. F. Fedorov, Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences USSR,
is devoted to the general questions of the formation of petroleum occurrences and
methods of prospecting. In the order of disc:+,gIon, the author presents a scheme
for the classification of types of petroleum i currences, examines the conditions
of the formation of petroleum occurrences in Azerbaydzhan and the Ural-Volga
region, and notes the tremendous role of Academician I. M. Gubkin and his scien-
tific legacy in the development of modern ideas on the formation of petroleum
occurrences.
M. I. Varentsov's work, "The Geological Structure of the Trialetsk Moun-
tains and the Adjacent Regions of Kartaliniya" contains a short outline of the
stratigraphy and conclusions in regard to the regularity of tectonics, and of
the time of formation of the tectonic structure in connection with the question
of prospecting for oil-bearing strata in various regions of Georgia.
The works or V. G. Putsillo, S. P. Uspenskiy, and P. I. Sanin are devoted to
a characterization of the c.al and bitumen deposits of Baykal as well as bitumens
and bituminous Cambrian layers of the Yakutsk ASSR.
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In L. D. Shturm's article, voluminous material is cited on the micro-
biological study of the petroleum occurrences of Second Baku, on the basis of
which the author concludes that in these occurrences, as well as in the younger
Caucasian occurrences, the factor of microbiological action may be of importance.
Voluminous experimental data on the fundamentals of re-exploitation methods
of petroleum occurrences are generalized and systematized in an article by M. A.
Geyman.
Original research by V. M. Fokeyev presents experimental data on the study
of the composition of ternary hydrocarbon systems containing petroleum for
instance, petroleum t n-pentane v methane?.
An article by Academician S. S. Nametkin and A. S. Sosnina presents a method
for the separation of sulfur compounds from petroleum fractions by the aercuri-
zation method. Some of the compounds separated from the fractions are identified.
1. A. Musayev and G. D. Gal'pern illustrate -a new analytical procedure for
the hydrogenation of hydrocarbons. A catalyst /copper asbestos7 is described
which selectively hydrogenates unsaturated aliphatic bonds, while it does not
affect aromatic ones.
Ye. S. Pokrovskiy publish extensive experimental data on the investigation
of hydrogenation products, homologs of cyclopentyl benzene and cyclohexyl
benzene, and on hydrocarbons of the cyclohexylindane series.
In an article on the chemical composition of neutral components of bitumens,
M. I. Sokolova describes improvement of the technique of a reaction she carried
out with the aid of a spectroscope. This reaction is used for the detection of
determination of aldehyde groups.
In an article by A. I. Bashkirov and his associates, the mechanism of pro-
ducing hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen over an iron catalyst is
treated in a new manner, on the basis of experimental data.
The material published in this collection will be of interest to wide cir-
cles of petroleum geologists, industrial personnel, and workers at scientific
research institutes who study the chemical composition and conversion of petro-
leum.
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