Study on vacuum pyrolysis of oil sands by comparison with retorting and nitrogen sweeping pyrolysis

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 163, Issue , 2017, Pages 51-59

  Ma, Xiaolong ^a   Ridner, Dmitry ^b   Zhang, Zisheng ^a,b   Li, Xingang ^a,c,d   Li, Hong ^a,c   Sui, Hong ^a,c   Gao, Xin ^a,c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER OF DISTILLATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SynBio Research Platform   (China)

Author keywords

Nitrogen sweeping; Oil sand; Retorting; Vacuum pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; FOSSIL FUELS; HEATING RATE; LIQUIDS; NITROGEN; OIL SANDS; OIL SHALE; REACTION RATES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SAND; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

BOILING POINT DISTRIBUTION; PYROLYSIS EXPERIMENTS; PYROLYSIS REACTION; REACTION TEMPERATURE; RETORTING; SIMULATED DISTILLATION; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; VACUUM PYROLYSIS;

PYROLYSIS;

EID: 85018497292     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2017.04.011     Document Type: Article

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