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Solubilization of Timahdit (MOROCCO) oil shale kerogen catalysed by 18-crown-6
✍ Scribed by André Ambles; Germaine Dupas; Jean-Claude Jacquesy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
85% of Timahdit oil shale kerogen (intermediate type I-type II) can be solubilize using potassium hydroxide 18-Crown-6 complex. The kerogen is almost unreactive (< 2% yield) without catalyst. Elucidation of the structure of kerogen, -insoluble organic matter-, represents one of the most complex problems of oil shale chemistry. Because of the insolubility and ma-