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A. M. Kuliyev, Academician (Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.), Head of 
Laboratory for Synthesis of Lubricant Additives 
R. Sh. Kuliyev 
A. M. Levshin 
Sh. Mamedov, Professor 
S. D. Mekhtiyev, Corresponding Academician (Azerbaydzhan S.S.R.), 
Head of Laboratory for Monomers 
Melikzade 
- Musayev 
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Sadykhova 
Shakhtakhtinskiy, Candidate 
Shikhiyev, Professor 
- Zeynalova 
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Description: 
This institute was formed in late 1958 by merging the Institute of 
Petroleum of the Academy of Sciences, Azerbaydzhan S.S.R., the Azerbaydzhan 
Scientific-Research Institute of the Petroleum-Refining Industry imeni 
V. V. Kuybyshev, and part of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of 
Sciences, Azerbaydzhan S.S.R. INKhP, the largest research organization in 
the Azerbaydzhan S.S.R., is the leading scientific-research institute for 
the development of methods for refining petroleum and gas, thermal and 
catalytic transformation of petroleum products, and separation of gaseous 
and liquid products of petroleum refining. Raw materials for the synthesis 
of polymers also are a major interest here. 
Research and development projects planned for the near future 
concern ways of synthesizing monomers; technological processes for refining 
petroleum raw materials to obtain high yields of aromatic hydrocarbons, 
particularly benzene and xylenes; synthesis of haloid-containing hydrocarbons; 
new types of silicon-organic and silicon-metallo-organic compounds, plastics, 
rubbers, etc.; synthesis of surface- and biologically active substances; 
industrial methods of obtaining bicarbonic acids and other oxygen-containing 
compounds; improvement of the quality of fuel and oil, including obtaining 
high-calorie, very thick fuels from Baku petroleum; synthesis of new fuel 
additives; new systems of catalysis; correlation between the structure of 
hydrocarbons and their derivatives and their reactability in alkylation, 
oxidation, halogenation, isomerization, polymerization, and polycondensation 
reactions; and the kinetics of industrial processes for petrochemical and 
polymer production, and the modeling of these processes. 
Other specific research programs concern the chemical composition 
of low-octane gasolines of the Karadag condensate and Siazan petroleums, 
and distribution of engineering indexes for reforming fractions of these 
gasolines over a platinum catalyst; contact pyrolysis in the fluid state 
for refining heavy petroleum raw materials and low-octane gasolines; high- 
speed contact and catalytic pyrolysis of low-octane gasoline in a 
continuous-flow reactor; catalytic reforming of products of high-temperature 
