Artificial maturation of a Type I kerogen in closed system: Mass balance and kinetic modelling

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1235-1247

  Behar, Françoise ^a   Roy, Stephanie ^b   Jarvie, Daniel ^a,c  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b Petrolia   (Canada)

^c Energy Institute at TCU   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MATURATION; CLOSED SYSTEMS; GENERATION PROCESS; GENERATION RATE; KINETIC MODELLING; KINETIC SCHEME; MARINE SOURCES; MASS BALANCE; MULTIPLE SOURCE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS; RESIDENCE TIME; SECONDARY CRACKING; TYPE II;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PYROLYSIS;

KEROGEN;

BITUMEN; CRACKING; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KEROGEN; LIGNITE; MASS BALANCE; MATURATION; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; RESIDENCE TIME;

EID: 77957876997     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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