In
this investigation, spectroscopic (FT-IR, UV–Vis, 1H NMR) and
chromatographic (GC) techniques were used to analyze two Jordanian shale
oils, Sultani and El-Lajjun. The oils were extracted at different
pyrolysis temperatures (400–500 °C) using a fluidized bed reactor. The
spectroscopic and chromatographic analyses show that the variation of
pyrolysis temperature has no significant effect on the composition of
the produced oil. The 1H NMR results indicate that the protons of methyl
and methelyene represent the bulk of the hydrogen (∼90%) in most shale
oil samples. GC analysis reveals that the oil samples contain n-alkanes
with a predominant proportion of n-C25.