✦ LIBER ✦
Evidence for clay minerals catalytic effects during low-temperature air oxidation of n-alkanes
✍ Scribed by P. Faure; P. Landais
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-2361
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✦ Synopsis
The aim of this paper is to present preliminary results obtained during low temperature (100ЊC) artificial oxidation of n-alkanes in order to evaluate the impact of two different mineral phases: calcite and illite. Contrary to calcite, illite shows retention properties and enhances catalytic effects that are underlined by the production of oxygenated compounds inherited from original n-alkanes either directly or through their breakdown in shorter molecules. Such results point out the major influence of mineral matrix on organic matter during low temperature air oxidation.