Early hydrocarbon generation of algae and influences of inorganic environments during low temperature simulation

Energy Exploration and Exploitation

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 377-396

  Qin, Shenjun ^a,b   Sun, Yuzhuang ^b   Tang, Yuegang ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Algae; Early hydrocarbon generation; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Inorganic environment; Phytenes; Simulated experiment; Squalene; Thermal maturity parameters

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PHYTENES; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL MATURITY;

ALGAE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL IONS; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 73449136163     PISSN: 01445987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/014459808788262251     Document Type: Article

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