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V. N. Gulyayev, Candidate 
K. I. Ivanov, Professor, Head of Laboratory 
Yu. N. Ivanov 
I. N. Laguntsov, Candidate 
R. E. Mazel’, Candidate 
Ye. I. Molchanov, Candidate 
B. Ye. Neymark, Candidate 
A. V. Ratner, Candidate 
A. M. Sirota, Candidate 
D. L. Temrot, Professor, Head of Section 
N. B. Vargaftek, Professor 
Ye. D. Vilyanskaya, Candidate 
Description: 
VII, established in 1921, is one of the most important Soviet 
institutes doing research in heat and power engineering. At present, there 
are over 30 laboratories which, except for the District-Heating and Petroleum 
Laboratories, are included in the Fuel, Furnace, Boiler, Turbine, Metal- 
lurgical, Water, Thermal-Automation, and Thermal-Physics Divisions. These 
are frequently reorganized and renamed due to shifts in research emphasis. 
The Institute has its own heat- and electric-power station with 
boiler installations for supercritical steam conditions, a gas turbine, and 
other experimental equipment. Full-scale investigations are made in actual 
power plants and stations; these make up about 40 per cent of the total 
scientific work carried out by the Institute. Research and development on 
atomic energy have been carried out through the use of the Institute's 1}- 
Mev cyclotron, /-Bev proton accelerator, and heavy-water, enriched-uranium 
reactor which has a flux of 2 x 1013 neutrons. 
At present, over 100 Doctors and Candidates are employed. The 
Institute itself grants both the Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. 
Research and development at the Institute include work on the auto- 
matic regulation and control of steam turbines and boiler units. For this 
purpose, they have developed program networks for electronic computers, 
thermocouple activating elements, sensitive pressure and color gages, servo 
motors, electronic hydraulic regulators, relaxation feedbacks, and an electro- 
heating reverse relay called "isodrom",. 
Problems of heat exchange under high pressure and other special con- 
ditions have been analyzed. Special cases inciuded heat exchange from wall 
to water covering cases of ordinary and surface boiling, heat transfer to 
steam and water under supercritical conditions, heat exchange from pipe wall 
to gas under high pressure, and the hydraulic resistance of a heated tube. 
They have investigated the properties and treatment of various 
steels ror use in power engineering. These studies have included the erfect 
of aging, heat treatment, hardening, and sulfiding of austenitic stainless 
and carbon steels, The Department of Metals has analyzed the causes of 
