STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MAOMING OIL SHALE KEROGEN  
GUO SHAOHUI 
State Key Lab of Heavy Oil Processing 
  
Faculty of Chemical Engineering 
University of Petroleum 
 
Changping 102200 
 
Beijing, China 
 
| The chemical structure of Maoming oil shale kerogen is studied by ruthenium tetroxide (RuO4 ) oxidation. Oxidation results suggest that Maoming oil shale kerogen is of a three-dimensional-network structure with relatively short aliphatic chains as cross-linking bridges, and heteroatoms and aromatic rings are the points of attachment in the network structure. |