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Petroleum Chemistry, Vol.52, No.6, 373-382, 2012
Composition of volatile products of flash pyrolysis of natural asphaltite and its resin-asphaltene and oil components
Volatile products of the two-step (400, 650 degrees C) flash pyrolysis of Ivanovskoe asphaltite from Oren-burg oblast, its asphaltenes, oils, and benzene and benzene-ethanol resins have been characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) in the on-line mode. The "unresolvable complex mixture" of nonidentifiable compounds prevails at both temperatures. The compositions of identified compounds in the products obtained at 400 and 650 degrees C substantially differ, especially, for resins and asphaltenes. At 650 degrees C, the products for all the samples are characterized by the same set of compounds including homologues of alkanes; alpha-olefins; cyclohexanes; pregnanes and steranes, cheilanthanes and hopanes; hopenes; mono-, bi-, and tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; and benzo- and dibenzothiophenes. This finding confirms that most of these compounds occur in the "bound" form as structural units of molecules of resinous-asphaltenic components of the natural asphaltite. DOI: 10.1134/S0965544112060035