New insights into secondary gas generation from the thermal cracking of oil: Methylated monoaromatics. A kinetic approach using 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Part I: A mechanistic kinetic model

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-167

  Fusetti, Luc ^a,c,d   Behar, Françoise ^a   Bounaceur, Roda ^b   Marquaire, Paul Marie ^b   Grice, Kliti ^c   Derenne, Sylvie ^d  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETHYLATION; GAS GENERATION; KINETIC APPROACH; MECHANISTIC KINETIC MODELS; MODEL COMPOUND; MONOAROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYAROMATICS; REACTANT CONVERSION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; REVERSIBLE REACTION; RING CLOSURES; THERMAL CRACKING; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; TRIMETHYLBENZENE;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); HYDROCARBONS; OLIGOMERS;

KINETIC THEORY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; DEGRADATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; METHANE; OIL; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 74149087120     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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