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Thermooxidative decomposition of oil shales

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The thermooxidative decomposition of four oil shale samples from Estonia, Jordan, Israel and Morocco and one sample of Estonian oil shale derivative, semicoke, was studied with the aim to determine the characteristics of the process and the differences of it related to the origin of oil shale. The experiments with a Setaram Setsys 1750 thermoanalyzer coupled to a Nicolet 380 FTIR Spectrometer were carried out under non-isothermal conditions up to 1000 °C at the heating rates of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 °C min−1 in an oxidizing atmosphere. A model-free kinetic analysis approach based on the differential isoconversional method of Friedman was used to calculate the kinetic parameters. The results of TG–DTA–FTIR analyses and the variation of activation energy E along the reaction progress α indicated the complex character of thermooxidative decomposition of oil shale and semicoke, being at that the most complicated for Estonian and Jordanian oil shale characterized by higher content of organic matter as compared to the other samples studied.

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This work was partly supported by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (SF0140082s08).

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  1. Laboratory of Inorganic Materials, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia

    Tiit Kaljuvee, Merli Keelmann, Andres Trikkel & Rein Kuusik

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Kaljuvee, T., Keelmann, M., Trikkel, A. et al. Thermooxidative decomposition of oil shales. J Therm Anal Calorim 105, 395–403 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-010-1033-0

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