Green river oil shale pyrolysis: Semi-open conditions

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 6447-6459

  Le Doan, T V ^a,b   Bostrom, N W ^a,d   Burnham, A K ^c   Kleinberg, R L ^a   Pomerantz, A E ^a   Allix, P ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TOTAL   (France)

^c American Shale Oil LLC   (United States)

^d Schlumberger Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MATURATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMMERCIAL OPERATION; GASEOUS HYDROCARBON; GREEN RIVER FORMATION; INORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS; THERMAL MATURATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; KEROGEN; RIVERS; SHALE; SHALE OIL;

OIL SHALE;

EID: 84888332567     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef401162p     Document Type: Article

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