Title: Effect of Heating Rate on the Pyrolysis of Oil Shale
Abstract: Studies were made on the effect of heating rate on the yield of oil plus organic gases and the char yield during the pyrolysis of lean, medium and rich oil shale samples whose origin was the Piceance Creek Basin in Colorado. Increasing the heating rate in the range of 4 to 40°C/min effected a decrease in the yield of oil and gaseous organic products by 23% and promoted the formation of higher boiling constituents in the shale oil produced. In addition, activation energies and reaction orders for these shales were determined as a function of conversion using the kinetic analysis of Friedman. The results obtained tend to confirm the hypothesis that the early stages of the decomposition involve autocatalysis.
Publication Year: 1976
Publication Date: 1976-06-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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