A comparison of the organic material in the Green River Formation and the Chattanooga shale

Conference · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1989 · American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA)

OSTI ID:6820558

McGowan, C W; Stanton, B J; Morris, R M ^[1]

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1. Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville (USA)

The purpose of this paper is to compare the organic material of the two oil shales. Miknis and Smith have compared the total organic matter of these two oil shales (as well as others) using {sup 13}C-NMR. The results indicated that while almost all of the carbon in the Green River Formation was aliphatic, approximately half of the carbon in the Chattanooga Shale was aromatic. The authors showed that a direct correlation existed between aliphatic carbon content and oil conversion using the Fisher Assay method. The organic material contained in oil shale exists in two forms. Bitumen is defined as the organic material that is soluble in common organic solvents. Bitumen is thus considered to have a low molecular weight. Most of the organic material exists as kerogen which is insoluble in common organic solvents and generally considered to be a high molecular weight material. In this paper a comparison is made between the benzene-soluble bitumens of each oil shale and kerogen concentrates prepared from each oil shale.

• OSTI ID: 6820558
• Report Number(s): CONF-8904125--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA) Journal Volume: 34:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040500* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Properties & Composition
58 GEOSCIENCES
580000 -- Geosciences
AROMATICS
BENZENE
BITUMENS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBON 13
CARBON ISOTOPES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
GREEN RIVER FORMATION
HYDROCARBONS
ISOTOPES
KEROGEN
LIGHT NUCLEI
MAGNETIC RESONANCE
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
NUCLEI
OIL SHALES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC MATTER
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
RESONANCE
SOLUBILITY
STABLE ISOTOPES
TAR