Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Generation from Fatty Acid
- 19 June 1964
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 144 (3625), 1451-1452
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.144.3625.1451
Abstract
In the presence or absence of water, behenic acid generates hydrocarbons during heating at 200° C with bentonite. Without water the ratio of isobutane or isopentane to normal butane or normal pentane is much higher than with water. Besides C21. and lower n-alkanes, n-alkanes with 22 to 34 carbon atoms are also formed.Keywords
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