Package Reference Documentation

The following classes and methods form the rampedpyrox package:

Ramped PyrOx classes

rampedpyrox.RpoThermogram
rampedpyrox.Daem
rampedpyrox.EnergyComplex
rampedpyrox.RpoIsotopes

Ramped PyrOx methods

rampedpyrox.assert_len
rampedpyrox.calc_L_curve
rampedpyrox.derivatize
rampedpyrox.extract_moments
rampedpyrox.plot_tg_isotopes

References

The following references were used during creation of the core rampedpyrox pacakge or provide information regarding the choice of user-inputted parameters (i.e. omega, lambda, and DE).

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[2] B. Cramer (2004) Methane generation from coal during open system pyrolysis investigated by isotope specific, Gaussian distributed reaction kinetics. Organic Geochemistry, 35, 379-392.

[3] V. Dieckmann (2005) Modeling petroleum formation from heterogeneous source rocks: The influence of frequency factors on activation energy distribution and geological prediction. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 375-390.

[4] D.C. Forney and D.H. Rothman (2012) Common structure in the heterogeneity of plant-matter decay. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, rsif.2012.0122.

[5] D.C. Forney and D.H. Rothman (2012) Inverse method for calculating respiration rates from decay time series. Biogeosciences, 9, 3601-3612.

[6] P.C. Hansen (1994) Regularization tools: A Matlab package for analysis and solution of discrete ill-posed problems. Numerical Algorithms, 6, 1-35.

[7] J.D. Hemingway et al. (2017) Assessing the blank carbon contribution, isotope mass balance, and kinetic isotope fractionation of the ramped pyrolysis/oxidation instrument at NOSAMS. Radiocarbon, 59, 179-193.

[8] C.C. Lakshmananan et al. (1991) Implications of multiplicity in kinetic parameters to petroleum exploration: Distributed activation energy models. Energy & Fuels, 5, 110-117.

[9] Rosenheim et al. (2008) Antarctic sediment chronology by programmed-temperature pyrolysis: Methodology and data treatment. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(4), GC001816.

[10] J.E. White et al. (2011) Biomass pyrolysis kinetics: A comparative critical review with relevant agricultural residue case studies. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 91, 1-33.