GUO Xiu-ying, WANG Qing, JIANG Qian-qian, BAI Jing-ru, JIA Chun-xia
Journal of Northeast Electric Power University.
2012, 32(2):
26-32.
Study of oil sand pyrolysis by thermogravimetric analysis could guide the work of oil recovery by retorting.The pyrolysis experiments were carried out using thermogravimetric analyzer from room temperatwre to a final temperature of 550℃ under various heating rates.The results show that 350℃~520℃ in cracking stage is the main oil production region,where the TG weight loss data were in good agreement with the oil yields data by Fischer Assay.It's attributed to the cracking of heavy organic substances,especially bitumen.DAEM,FWO and C-R models were used to calculate the activation energy of oil production region respectively.The results implied that the pyrolysis of oil sand could be well described by DAEM and FWO models.The values of activation erengy approximately keep consistency with each other and are not constant throughout the chosen region within the range from 150 kJ/mol to 320 kJ/mol,then over the cracking process at about 220 kJ/mol.However,the C-R model which has been extensively applied in oil sand pyrolysis has unsatisfied with fitting results,the values of activation energy were significantly on the low side compared with DAEM results.The reason for the limitations of C-R model is that the chosen mechanism function is depended on a assumption of single elementary reaction,however,the process of pyrolysis in experiments is a complex heterogeneous reaction which is consisted of many elementary reactions paralleled,continued,overlapped or competed with each other.