Formation of archipelago structures during thermal cracking implicates a chemical mechanism for the formation of petroleum asphaltenes

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2130-2136

  Alshareef, Ali H ^a   Scherer, Alexander ^b   Tan, Xiaoli ^a   Azyat, Khalid ^a   Stryker, Jeffrey M ^a   Tykwinski, Rik R ^b   Gray, Murray R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION PRODUCTS; ALKYL GROUPS; ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCT; CATAGENESIS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; LARGE COMPONENTS; LIQUID PHASE; MODEL COMPOUND; N-ALKANES; PETROLEUM ASPHALTENES; REFINERY PROCESS; SHORT TIME SCALE; STARTING COMPOUNDS; THERMAL CRACKING; THERMAL CRACKING REACTIONS; VISBREAKING;

ADDITION REACTIONS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ASPHALTENES; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAFFINS; RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CRACKING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 79960617504     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef200170a     Document Type: Article

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