Pyrolysis kinetics of Athabasca bitumen using a TGA under the influence of reservoir sand

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-319

  Murugan, Pulikesi ^a   Mani, Thilakavathi ^a   Mahinpey, Nader ^a   Dong, Mingzhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitumen; Kinetics; Pyrolysis; Thermal cracking; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ATHABASCA BITUMEN; BEST FIT; BITUMEN; DIFFERENTIAL METHODS; MULTIPLE HEATING RATES; ORDER OF REACTION; PYROLYSIS KINETICS; THERMAL CRACKING; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS (TGA); WEIGHT LOSS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DECOMPOSITION; ENZYME KINETICS; EXPERIMENTS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; PYROLYSIS; SAND; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84857918593     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20652     Document Type: Article

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