The effects of pyrobitumen on oil cracking in confined pyrolysis experiments

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-47

  Pan, Changchun ^a   Jiang, Lanlan ^a   Liu, Jinzhong ^a   Zhang, Shuichang ^b   Zhu, Guangyou ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NUMBER; CONFINED PYROLYSIS; CONFINED SYSTEMS; CRACKING RATE; GASEOUS HYDROCARBON; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; OIL CRACKING; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; WET GAS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); GASES; METHANE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BITUMEN; CARBON; CRACKING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBON; INHIBITION; METHANE; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME;

EID: 84862817103     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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