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Journal Article
The Formation of Organic Matter Pores in Shales: Implications from Combined Thermal Heating and Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging
2025
Overview
To reveal the forming process of organic matter pores in shales, an experiment combining thermal heating and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was conducted on an oil shale sample with a vitrinite reflectance value of 0.46% from the Huadian Formation in the Huadian Basin, northeastern China. The heating temperatures were from 417.8 °C to 700.8 °C, and the corresponding Easy%Ro values were between 1.00% and 3.70%. Four pieces of macerals in the SEM images, including vitrinite (one piece), funginite (one piece), and solid bitumen (two pieces), were observed during the whole heating process. The results showed that organic pores started to appear and increased in all the studied macerals. Each piece of maceral had two rapid growth points of organic matter pores. During heating, organic pores were initially isolated and then became connected. Among the three types of macerals, solid bitumen was more porous, which may be related to the fact that solid bitumen was more easily thermally degraded. Funginite had more pores than vitrinite at all the heating temperatures. Cracks were observed in vitrinite and funginite during heating, and the vitrinite had more cracks, which may be attributed to its stiffness and brittleness. Almost all the organic matter pores were irregular in this study, but bubble-like or sponge-like organic pores have been reported in natural shales. The difference in shapes of organic matter pores may be derived from our experimental system as it cannot consider pressure. These results provide some implications for the mechanism of formation of organic matter pores.
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MDPI AG
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