Sentences with phrase «of kerogen»

Not exact matches

To peer inside the kerogen, they used small - angle neutron scattering, shooting a beam of subatomic neutrons through a substance and collecting information on the neutrons» behavior to determine the properties of the pores.

However, all of the carbonate, carbon in kerogen and coal and sulphates and oxidised Fe are transformed with silica into reduced silicate forms and oxidised gases CO2 and SO2, the free energy changes result in degraded heat.

If you add up the mass of carbon as carbonate (eglimestone) and carbon (kerogen / coal / oil / gas) in the crust it comes to ca. 98 * 10 ^ 21g.

The issue with fossil fuel depletion occurring at the same time as CO2 is accelerating is that these low grades of coal, kerogen, and bitumen will only magnify the CO2 emissions.

That is of course happening with tar sands whereby natural gas is used to process the kerogen.

To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 million barrels per day from 2010 to 2040, including the production of both petroleum (crude oil and lease condensate, natural gas plant [NGPL], bitumen, extra-heavy oil, and refinery gains), and other liquid fuels (coal - to - liquids [CTL], gas - to - liquids [GTL], biofuels, and kerogen).

Organic haze in Earth's early atmosphere: Source of low - 13C Late Archean kerogens?

Therefore, it could provide a novel explanation for the presence of extremely low - 13C kerogens in Late Archean sediments.

The Medieval Warm Period in AD 980-1250 is the most distinctive climate period in the whole sediment sequence identified by changes in sediment colour, X-ray density, varve thickness, LOI, as well as the isotopic composition of hydrogen in kerogen.

Pseudo-petroleum sources like kerogen are an ERoI fallacy, hyped into «trillions of barrels» by wild speculators.

Shell R and D has several project in northwestern Colorado the use in - situ resistive heating to crack kerogen in oil shale to a crude oil that can be pumped out of the formation.

Consider that we may use the equivalent of 1/2 a barrel of natural gas to process 1 barrel of oil from shale kerogen or to crack oil from tarry goo.