Atomic and Nuclear Methods in Fossil Energy Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages xiii-xiii
Analysis of Oil Shale Products and Effluents Using a Multitechnique Approach....Pages 1-28
Nuclear Methods for Trace Elements in Petroleum and Petroleum Products....Pages 29-48
Trace Element Composition of Athabasca Tar Sands and Extracted Bitumens....Pages 49-59
Uranium Content of Petroleum by Fission Track Technique....Pages 61-68
Fast Neutron Activation Analysis of Fossil Fuels and Liquefaction Products....Pages 69-82
Determination of Trace Element Forms in Solvent Refined Coal Products....Pages 83-96
Comparison of Mainframe and Minicomputer Spectral Analysis Codes in the Activation Analysis of Geological Samples....Pages 97-113
Application and Comparison of Neutron Activation Analysis with Other Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Coal....Pages 115-131
An Automated Multidetector System for Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials....Pages 133-140
Modes of Occurrence of Trace Elements and Minerals in Coal: An Analytical Approach....Pages 141-149
Development and Calibration of Standards for PNAA Assay of Coal....Pages 151-154
On-Line Nuclear Analysis of Coal and its Uses....Pages 155-162
Analysis of Mineral Phases in Coal Utilizing Factor Analysis....Pages 163-174
The Analysis of Inorganic Constituents in the Groundwater at an Underground Coal Gasification Site....Pages 175-188
Application of PIXE, RBS and High Energy Proton Microbeams to the Elemental Analysis of Coal and Coal Waste....Pages 189-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Investigation of Coal Hydrogenation Using Deuterium as an Isotopic Tracer....Pages 207-228
The Reaction of Carbon-14-Labeled Reagents with Coal....Pages 229-240
Natural Permeability Reduction in Porous Media Due to the Presence of Kaolinite....Pages 241-256
Research Methodology in Used Oil Recycling....Pages 257-269
The Application of Photon Induced X-Ray Fluorescence for the Simultaneous Determinations of Cobalt, Nickel and Molybdenum in Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts....Pages 271-283
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis of Fly Ash Particles....Pages 285-294
Spectroscopy and Asphaltene Structure....Pages 295-321
Geologic Factors that Control Mineral Matter in Coal....Pages 323-335
Structure Analysis of Coals by Resolution Enhanced Solid State 13 C NMR Spectroscopy....Pages 337-348
Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Oil Shale Evaluation and Processing....Pages 349-363
NMR Results Raise Questions on Coal Liquefaction Model Compound Studies....Pages 365-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
The Identification of Organic Compounds in Oil Shale Retort Water by GC and GC-MS....Pages 383-397
Pyrolysis/High Resolution Mass Spectrometry with Metastable Peak Monitoring Applied to the Analysis of Green River Shale Kerogen....Pages 399-407
Advances in the Chemistry of Alberta Tar Sands: Field Ionization Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectrometric Studies....Pages 409-441
Sulfur Forms Determination in Coal Using Microwave Discharge Activated Oxygen and Mössbauer Spectroscopy....Pages 443-458
Analysis of Radionuclides in Airborne Effluents from Coal-Fired Power Plants....Pages 459-472
Secular Equilibrium of Radium in Western Coal....Pages 473-479
Electron Beam Ionization for Coal Fly Ash Precipitators....Pages 481-494
Back Matter....Pages 495-506