Oil sand pyrolysis: Evolution of volatiles and contributions from mineral, bitumen, maltene, and SARA fractions

Fuel

Volumn 224, Issue , 2018, Pages 726-739

  Nie, Fan ^a   He, Demin ^a   Guan, Jun ^a   Li, Xueqiang ^b   Hong, Yu ^a   Wang, Linfei ^a   Zheng, Huaan ^b   Zhang, Qiumin ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Shanxi Coal Chemical Industry Group Company   (China)

Author keywords

Oil sand; Pyrolysis; SARA; Volatile evolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); LIGHT OLEFINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALS; OIL SANDS; PYROLYSIS; SAND;

ACTIVATION ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; EVOLVED GAS ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; SARA; TEMPERATURE REGIONS; VOLATILE COMPOSITION; VOLATILE EVOLUTION;

THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 85044114035     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2018.03.069     Document Type: Article

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