A utilização de técnicas integradas de análise de proveniência sedimentar, incluindo a petrografia quantitativa utilizando o método Gazzi-Dickinson, a análise convencional de minerais pesados, a análise da composição química de granadas (análise varietal) e a geocronologia U-Pb (LAM-ICPMS-MC) em zircão, permitiram a identificação das áreas-fonte e o padrão de suprimento sedimentar dos arenitos de água profunda maastrichtianos que constituem os reservatórios do Campo de Jubarte, Bacia de Campos. Os arenitos são pobremente selecionados, com grãos sub-angulares a angulares, denotando rápido transporte. Apresentam composição original rica em feldspatos (arcósios sensu Folk, 1968) e pobre em fragmentos líticos de textura fina, proveniente de terrenos soerguidos de embasamento (sensu Dickinson, 1985). As assembléias de minerais pesados indicam proveniência a partir de rochas metamórficas de alto e médio grau, derivadas de metapelitos aluminosos metamorfisados em altas temperaturas e pressões baixas a médias, de granitos e subordinadamente de rochas máficas (metabasitos), pertencentes ao Domínio Tectônico Cabo Frio e ao terreno Oriental (domínio Costeiro) do orógeno Ribeira.A direção principal de suprimento sedimentar foi de sudoeste para nordeste, interpretada com base na identificação dos terrenos-fonte com abundante cianita no Domínio Tectônico Cabo Frio. Foi descartado o suprimento de sedimentos provenientes de noroeste, coincidente com a direção estrutural da faixa cataclasada de Colatina. As seqüências de quarta e quinta ordem analisadas não mostram variação na composição essencial, embora apresentem uma variação discreta na razão apatita:turmalina, que por isto apresenta potencial para ser utilizada como correlação entre os corpos de arenito dentro do campo. O índice ZTR baixo, combinado com a ausência de fragmentos metassedimentares e minerais pesados de baixo grau sugerem que ao final do Cretáceo os processos erosivos já haviam removido completamente as rochas supracrustais de baixo grau, expondo os terrenos plutônicos infracrustais. A composição quartzo-feldspática resultante favoreceu a qualidade dos reservatórios. A análise integrada dos dados sugere uma área-fonte tectonicamente ativa, relativamente próxima da bacia, submetida a um soerguimento rápido que permitiu a erosão de grandes volumes de sedimentos sob um regime de intemperismolimitado. Assim que erodidos das rochas-fonte os sedimentos foram transportados desde curtos rios de montanha e/ou leques aluviais rapidamente para águas profundas. A variação de alta freqüência da razão apatita:turmalina indica derivação direta dos arenitos do Campo de Jubarte a partir de um sistema aluvial relativamente próximo. / The application of integrated techniques of provenance analysis, including quantitative petrography using the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method, conventional heavy mineral analysis, garnet mineral chemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology, allowed the identification of source-rocks and the sedimentary supply pattern for the Maastrichtian deep-water reservoir sandstones of the Jubarte Field, Campos Basin. The sandstones are poorly-sorted with angular to sub-angular grains denoting fast transportation. They present a detrital composition rich in feldspars (arkoses sensu Folk, 1968) and poor in finely-crystalline lithic fragments, with provenance from continental blocks of uplifted basement (sensu Dickinson, 1985). The heavy mineral assemblages indicate provenance from high-grade metamorphic rocks, derived from aluminous metapelites metamorphosed at high temperatures and low to medium pressures, from granites and from subordinate mafic rocks (metabasites), belonging to the Cabo Frio Tectonic Domain and the Oriental (Costeiro) terrain of the Ribeira orogen. The main sedimentary supply route during late Cretaceous was from southwest to northeast, indicated mainly by the presence of kyanite in the Cabo Frio Domain source-rocks. A possible dispersal pattern from northwest to southeast, coinciding with the Colatina shear zone, can be discarded. The fourth and fifth-order depositional sequences analyzed show no variation in major composition through time, although displaying a discrete variation of the apatite:tourmaline ratio, which thus present potential to be used as a parameter for sandstone correlation within the field. A low ZTR index coupled to the absence of low-grade heavy minerals and meta-sedimentary rock fragments suggest that at late Cretaceous the erosive processes had already removed the supracrustal, low-grade meta-sedimentary rocks, exposing the infracrustal plutonic terrains. The resulting quartz-feldspathic composition favored the quality of the reservoirs. The integrated analysis of compositional data suggests a tectonically-active source-area located close to the basin, where rapid tectonic uplift produced a large amount of sediments under a weathering-limited regime of erosion. Soon after being eroded from the bedrocks, these sediments were transported from short mountain rivers and/or by alluvial fans, directly to deep-water. The high-frequency variation inapatite:tourmaline ratio support direct derivation of Jubarte sandstones from a relatively proximal alluvial system.

O Grupo Guaritas (Eocambriano da Bacia do Camaquã, RS) é formado por rochas siliciclásticas, predominantemente arenosas e conglomeráticas, interpretadas como de origem aluvial e eólica. Esta unidade estratigráfica pode apresentar mais de 1500 m de espessura de sedimentos e abrange as formações Guarda Velha, Pedra das Torrinhas, Varzinha, Pedra Pintada e Serra do Apertado. O Grupo Guaritas relaciona-se a importantes eventos geológicos do sul do Brasil, pois registra o encerramento da sedimentação em bacia extensional do tipo rifte (Bacia do Camaquã) durante o Cambriano, a qual se desenvolveu em área que seria posteriormente recoberta por ampla bacia intracratônica (a Bacia do Paraná), a partir do Ordoviciano. Para contribuir com novas informações sobre a proveniência das unidades eopaleozóicas brasileiras, as rochas arenosas do Grupo Guaritas foram submetidas à análise de minerais pesados, petrografia de lâminas delgadas e luminescência opticamente estimulada (LOE). As análises de minerais pesados foram realizadas na fração areia muito fina de 44 amostras coletadas em afloramentos. Essas análises abrangeram a identificação e quantificação da assembléia de minerais pesados transparentes não-micáceos, além da determinação dos índices ZTR (zircão+turmalina+rutilo), ATi (apatita/(apatita+turmalina)), ZTi (zircão/(turmalina+zircão)) e ZRi (zircão/(rutilo+zircão). As seções delgadas foram utilizadas para descrever os componentes deposicionais e diagenéticos e para classificar os arenitos estudados. Quatro amostras selecionadas foram submetidas ainda à análise da sensibilidade LOE de grãos individuais de quartzo. A sensibilidade LOE foi calculada utilizando a integral da curva LOE assim como de seus componentes, chamados informalmente de rápido, médio e lento. A sensibilidade LOE foi usada para avaliação de grau de retrabalhamento sedimentar. As amostras estudadas foram classificadas como arcóseos, subarcóseos e sublitoarenitos. Os minerais pesados identificados e suas porcentagens médias foram: zircão (36%), turmalina (13%), rutilo (3%), apatita (23%), granada (16%), anatásio (7%), titanita (1%), sillimanita (1%), monazita (<1%), epidoto (<1%), hornblenda (<1%), estaurolita (<1%) e cianita (<1%). Esses minerais pesados foram descritos em todas as unidades estudadas do Grupo Guaritas. Os valores médios do índice ZTR variam de 20 (Fm. Serra do Apertado) a 40 (Fm. Pedra Pintada) enquanto que o índice ZTi apresenta valores médios entre 62 (Fm. Guarda Velha) e 73 (Fm. Pedra Pintada). Os valores médios dos índices ZRi e ATi variam de 81 (Fm. Guarda Velha) a 90 (Fm. Varzinha) e de 79 (Fm. Guarda Velha) a 83 (Fm. Serra do Apertado), respectivamente. As médias da sensibilidade LOE total do quartzo apresentaram valores médios maiores para as unidades inferiores (Fm. Guarda Velha = 3295 contagens e Fm. Varzinha = 3655 contagens) em relação às superiores (Fm. Pedra Pintada = 2271contagens e Fm. Serra do Apertado = 2457 contagens). As médias dos componentes LOE rápido (15-19%), médio (37-38%) e lento (43-46%) não apresentam diferenças marcantes entre as unidades. A assembléia de minerais pesados dominada por zircão, apatita e turmalina sugere que os sedimentos arenosos do Grupo Guaritas são derivados principalmente de rochas ígneas ácidas (granitos neoproterozóicos). A pequena variação do índice ZRi aponta manutenção da configuração litológica da área-fonte durante a deposição das unidades estudadas. A abundância de feldspatos, fragmentos líticos e, principalmente, de apatita indica deposição em ambiente árido e/ou soterramento rápido. Isto é coerente com a sensibilidade LOE do quartzo, que é relativamente reduzida, indicando baixo grau de retrabalhamento sedimentar para as areias do Grupo Guaritas. A sensibilidade LOE mais elevada das areias da Formação Guarda Velha representaria maior contribuição de sedimentos distais mais retrabalhados.A sensibilidade LOE do quartzo permite avaliar o grau de retrabalhamento de sedimentos antigos (Cambriano), já que até então este método tinha sido aplicado somente à sedimentos quaternários. / The Guaritas Group (Eocambrian of the Camaquã Basin, southern Brazil) is mainly composed of fine to coarse-gravelly sandstones, interpreted as a record of fluvial and aeolian depositional systems. This stratigraphic unity may present more than 1500m thick of sediments, comprising the Guarda Velha, Pedra das Torrinhas, Varzinha, Pedra Pintada and Serra do Apertado formations. The Guaritas Group relates to important geological events occurred in southern Brazil during the Eopaleozoic. Its deposition marks the final episode of sedimentary filling of an extensional rift basin (Camaquã Basin) during the Cambrian, in an area after covered by a huge intracratonic basin (Paraná Basin) during the Ordovician. To contribute with new information about the provenance of Eopalaezoic Brazilian sediments, the sandy rocks of the Guaritas Group were analyzed through heavy minerals, thin section petrography and luminescence methods. Heavy minerals analyses were carried out in the very fine sand fraction of 44 rock samples collected from outcrops. These analyses included the identification and quantification of the transparent non-micaceous heavy minerals as well as the determination of the ZTR (zircon+tourmaline+rutile), ATi (apatite/(apatite+tourmaline)), ZTi (zircon/(tourmaline+zircon)) and ZRi (zircon/(rutile+zircon) indices. Thin section petrography was used to describe depositional and diagenetic components and classify the studied sandstones. Further, four samples were selected for measurements of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) sensitivity in quartz single-grains. The OSL sensitivity was calculated using the total OSL curve as well as specific components, informally named fast, medium and slow. The OSL sensitivity of quartz has been used as a proxy for sedimentary reworking. The studied sandstones were classified as arkoses, subarkoses and sublitharenites. The identified heavy minerals and their mean percentages were: zircon (36%), tourmaline (13%), rutile (3%), apatite (23%), garnet (16%), anatase (7%), titanite (1%), sillimanite (1%), monazite (<1%), epidote (<1%), hornblende (<1%), staurolite (<1%) and kyanite (<1%). These heavy minerals were described in all studied units of the Guaritas Group. The mean values of the ZTR indice varied from 20 (Serra do Apertado Fm.) to 40 (Pedra Pintada Fm.) while the ZTi indice presented mean values between 62 (Guarda Velha Fm.) and 73 (Pedra Pintada Fm.). The mean values of the ZRi and ATi indices ranged from 81 (Guarda Velha Fm.) to 90 (Varzinha Fm.) and from 79 (Guarda Velha Fm.) to 83 (Serra do Apertado Fm.), respectively. The total OSL sensitivity of quartz demonstrated higher mean values for the bottom units (Guarda Velha Fm. = 3295 counts; Varzinha Fm. = 3655 counts) than for the upper units (Pedra Pintada Fm. = 2271 counts, and Serra do Apertado Fm. = 2457 counts). The means of the fast OSL component (15-19%), medium (37-38%) and slow (43-46%) did not differ markedly among the units. The heavy minerals assemblage dominated by zircon, tourmaline and apatite suggests that the sandy sediments of the Guaritas Group are mainly derived from acid igneous rocks (neoproterozoic granites).The low range of variation of the ZRi indice points out the maintenance of similar primary source rocks during the deposition of the Guaritas sediments. The abundance of unstable grains such as feldspars, lithic fragments and apatite indicates deposition under arid climate and/or high rate of sediment accumulation. The OSL sensitivity of quartz grains is relatively low, suggesting sands with low degree of reworking. This is compatible with the high content of unstable sand grains (apatite, feldspar and lithic fragments) and elevated rate of sediment accumulation. The greater proportion of grains with higher OSL sensitivity in the Guarda Velha Formation represents an increased contribution of sediments from distal more reworked sources.The OSL sensitivity of quartz allows evaluate the degree of reworking of older sediments (Cambrian), since this method had been applied only to Quaternary sediments.

Dewatering and desalination of building constructions is currently a discussed topic. At the present time, different techniques for dewatering and desalination can be used. The existing methods are efficient but it is necessary to improve these methods and to develop new ones. The moisture in the building constructions is directly connected with the salts, which can be dissolved in it and together with the moisture further to move. The salts can cause damage of constructions and change mechanical and physical properties of the buildings materials. The basic demands for dewatering and desalination are the speed, efficiency and economical factors. Presented dissertation focuses on dewatering and desalination with the use of electrokinetic methods together with the technique of the clay poultices. In the first part of the thesis, basic theoretical principles of moisture and salts are described. In the second part (experimental part), the series of experimental measurements were conducted both in the laboratory and in situ. In this part of dissertation, I was dewatering and desalinating bricks and sandstones under an applied electric field. The main focus was on the optimization of a laboratory setup in order to get the highest efficiency for dewatering and desalination. Other measurements were done in situ, where the same technique was used.

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The Desmoinesian Marmaton Group, along the southern portion of the Anadarko Basin in the Granite Wash, comprises over 2,000 feet of stacked tight sandstones and conglomerates, containing unconventional reservoirs. Uncertainty around facies variability and lateral continuity of these reservoirs represents challenges to accurate reservoir characterization due to laterally restricted submarine fan systems, and mountainront faulting. This study examines 206 wire-line well-log suites and nine ice-house flooding surfaces across an 810-square mile study area to frame fine-scale sequences, track facies changes, and estimate fault timing and duration. This high-resolution stratigraphic framework comprises a hierarchy of cycles: one third-order, three fourth-order, and eight fifth-order cycles; these were mapped across fault blocks. Mapping at the fifth-order scale documented previously un-published faults, and showed that movement occurred during two separate fifth-order cycles. Within the stratigraphic framework, well log trends, calibrated to core descriptions, enabled prediction of depositional environments in uncored wells.

Deep-marine sandstones containing significant (> 10%) detrital mud (silt and clay) matrix have become increasingly recognized, but mostly in drill core or poorly exposed outcrops where details of their vertical and lateral variability are poorly captured. Exceptional vertical and along-strike exposures of matrix-rich and associated matrix-poor deposits in deep-marine strata of the passive margin Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup and foreland basin Ordovician Cloridorme Formation, provide an unparalleled opportunity to document such characteristics. In both study areas, strata form a 100s m long depositional continuum that at its upflow end consists of thick-bedded matrix-poor sandstone (<20% matrix) that transforms progressively downflow to medium- to thick-bedded muddy sandstone (20 – 50% matrix) to medium-bedded bipartite facies with a basal sandy (30 – 60% matrix) part overlain sharply by a muddier part (40 – 80% matrix), and then to thin-bedded sandy mudstone (50 – 90% matrix). This depositional continuum is then overlain everywhere by a thin- to very thin-bedded traction-structured sandstone and/or silty mudstone cap. This consistent lithofacies change is interpreted to reflect particle settling in a rapidly but systematically evolving, negligibly-sheared sand-mud suspension developed along the margins (Windermere) and downflow terminus (Cloridorme) of a high-energy, mud-enriched avulsion jet. Stratigraphically upward, beds of similar lithofacies type succeed one another vertically and transform to the next facies in the depositional continuum at about the same along-strike position, forming stratal units 2–9 beds thick whose grain-size distribution gradually decreases upward. This spatial and temporal regularity is interpreted to be caused by multiple surges of a single, progressively waning turbidity current, with sufficient lag between successive surges for the deposition of a traction-structured sandstone overlain by mudstone cap. Furthermore, the systematic backstepping or side-stepping recognized at the stratal unit scale in both the Windermere and Cloridorme is interpreted to be driven by a combination of knickpoint migration and local topographic steering of the flows, which continued until the supply of mud from local seafloor erosion became exhausted, the main channel avulsed elsewhere, or a new stratal element developed.

The problem of how sand and mud was distributed downslope, within linked alluvial-brackish water-marine shoreline systems of an extensive clastic wedge is addressed here. The Iles Clastic wedge accumulated over a time period of a few million years (my), and its component high-frequency regressive-transgressive sequences have a duration of a few 100 thousand years (ky). The sediment partitioning study provides insight into where the thickest sandstones and mudstones were located, and generates a model that can be applied to improving the management of hydrocarbons or water resources. A 300 km 2-D study transect across the Iles Clastic Wedge in SW Wyoming and N Colorado included subsurface well log information and outcrop stratigraphic columns. This information was used to correlate high-frequency sequences across several hundred kilometers, characterize depositional processes from proximal to distal reaches, develop a sediment partitioning model, and understand the role of the likely drivers in the development of the wedge and its internal sequences. The main results of this study are: (1) The Iles Clastic Wedge spans 3 my (500 m thick) and is composed internally of 11 sequences of 200-400 ky, each of which have significant regressive-transgressive transits of up to 90 km. Sediment partitioning analysis shows that within the regressive limb of the large wedge, the component regressive compartments tend to thicken basinwards, whereas transgressive compartments thicken landwards. This geometry is driven by preferential erosion in proximal areas during regression, bypassing much sediment to the marine shorelines, and transgressive backfilling into proximal areas previously eroded more deeply. (2) The greatest concentration of sands tends to be located in the proximal fluvial and estuarine facies of the transgressive compartments and within the medial shoreline/deltaic facies of the regressive compartments. (3) As the high-frequency sequences developed, the effectiveness of basinward sand partitioning reaches a maximum value near the peak regression level of the wedge, reflecting stronger erosion and sediment bypass during this times. (4) The development of the Iles Clastic Wedge was influenced by both tectonic and eustatic drivers, with important tectonic control in the upstream reaches. On a 4th-order timescale, the Iles Wedge internal sequences were likely influenced mainly by eustasy. / text

O aumento do uso do gás natural e a necessidade de sua estocagem em sítios subterrâneos, promoveu recentes pesquisas na Bacia do Paraná. Estas pesquisas incluiram a análise de estruturas favoráveis a formação de trapas e a avaliação do potencial de rochas-reservatórios para a estocagem subterrânea de gás natural (ESGN). Neste contexto insere-se o presente trabalho que foi desenvolvido no Alto Estrutural de Pitanga, borda leste da Bacia do Paraná. Neste Alto afloram rochas sedimentares permocarboníferas do Grupo Itararé que são amplamente reconhecidas por suas qualidades permoporosas. Com o intuito de caracterizar a faciologia, a estratigrafia bem como as qualidades petrofísicas do Grupo Itararé foram efetuados os seguintes estudos: levantamentos de seções estratigráficas de detalhe, descrição de fácies, análise microscópica, análise de microscopia eletrônica de varredura e avaliação de dados de poço. As descrições de fácies e estudos dos processos deposicionais, forneceram elementos para o agrupamento de fácies em associações de fácies e distinção de três associações de fácies: inferior, intermediária e superior. A disposição das associações de fácies permitiu o reconhecimento de uma suscessão progradacional, representada pela sobreposição de fácies de pró-delta/frente-deltaica por depósitos fluviais com contribuição glacial. A análise microscópica e caracterização petrográfica das rochas, permitiu a discriminação de quatro petrofácies: A, B, C e D. Os arenitos do Grupo Itararé na área de estudos foram classificados como: arenito feldspático, quartzo arenito, arenito lítico e wacke lítico. A microscopia eletrônica de varredura revelou a presença de caulinita, esmectita e ilita nos arenitos. A utilização de diferentes escalas de trabalho mostrou-se eficaz e elucidativa. A combinação de levantamentos de campo, análises petrográficas ao microscópio, ensaios de porosimetria a mercúrio e análises de perfis compostos permitiu realizar comparações e revelou um grupo de dados significativos para a pesquisa. / The increase in the utilization of natural gas and the need for underground gas storage has led to recent research projects on the subject focusing the Paraná Basin. These projects aim at locating favorable structures for the generation of traps and the evaluation of the reservoir potential of rock units for the storage of natural gas (ESGN). The present work is part of this effort, aiming at the study of the Pitanga Structural High, at the eastern border of the Paraná Basin. This region is characterized by outcrops of the Itararé Group (Permo-Carboniferous), which contains rock units that are known for their high porosity and permeability. The main goals of the present work are to characterize the sedimentary facies, the stratigraphy and the petrophysical properties of the Itararé Group, based on detailed stratigraphic logging, facies descriptions, microscopic petrography, Scanning Electron Microscope analysis, and evaluation of well data. Facies descriptions and interpretation of depositional processes were used to group the sedimentary facies into three facies associations: named lower, middle and upper facies associations. The stacking pattern of the facies associations led to the interpretation of a progradational succession, formed by the migration of fluvial deposits over prodelta to delta front deposits, in a context of glacial influence. The microscopic petrography characterization of rock samples led to the discrimination of four petrofacies, coded A to D. The sandstones of the Itararé Group in the studied area were classified as: feldspatic sandstones, quartz-arenites, lithicsandstones and lithic wackes. The Scanning Electron Microscope analysis revealed the presence of caulinite, smectite and ilite in the sandstones. The application of analyses at different scales of work proved to be an efficient method. The integration of field survey, microscopic petrography analysis, mercury porosimetry and interpretation of composite well logs generated a significant volume of data and enabled the comparison of the results of the different methods.

Neste trabalho, algumas caracterizações químicas foram realizadas em arenitos asfálticos da região de Piracicaba-SP, Formação Piramboia da Bacia do Paraná, para verificar seu potencial de produção de óleo. Para isso, as amostras obtidas da região foram submetidas a avaliação por termogravimetria, teor de umidade, teor de cinzas, teor de material orgânico por extração, pirólise, análise elementar e fracionamento em coluna. Por TGA observou-se que a 500 C praticamente todo material orgânico presente sofreu pirólise. A extração colaborou para se obter a classificação das amostras quanto ao teor de material orgânico, apresentando entre 4 e 13%, sendo que pelos teores encontrados a amostra AM06 é considerada de alto potencial produtivo, as amostras AM05, AM08 e AM09 são de médio, as amostras AM01, AM02, AM03 e AM07 possuem baixo, mas ainda atrativo, e a AM04 não possui atratividade. Pela avaliação elementar, a relação H/C e O/C dos extratos evidenciaram que algumas amostras estão no processo final da diagênese e outras no início da catagênese, indicando que elas estão no processo inicial de maturação. A avaliação cromatográfica dos extratos revelou que houve perdas de óleo por intemperismo restando majoritariamente compostos de alto peso molecular. O fracionamento permitiu verificar que as amostras AM01, AM06 e AM09 possuem maior quantidade de hidrocarbonetos livres e as amostras AM06 e AM07 e AM09 apresentaram maior teor de óleo. O procedimento de pirólise evidenciou que as amostras AM01, AM05, AM06 e AM09 apresentam maior potencial de geração de óleo, sendo que a faixa encontrada de óleo pirolítico ficou entre 2 e 8%, e através de avaliação por CGAR e CGAR-EM observou-se que ela promove a liberação de quantidades consideráveis de substâncias mais leves do que quando comparados aos extratos obtidos diretamente nas amostras originais. Além de produzir uma série homóloga de hidrocarbonetos parafínicos e olefínicos. A comparação dos produtos de pirólise dos arenitos com os produtos de pirólise de um resíduo de vácuo por CGAR-EM permitiu observar que existe similaridade entre suas composições, onde o processo de pirólise do resíduo de vácuo gera uma série homóloga de hidrocarbonetos entre C10 a C32, similar aos produtos de pirólise da amostra AM09, porém com menor variedade de tipos de hidrocarbonetos. A pré-avaliação da co-pirólise dos arenitos com resíduos plásticos indicou que é possível aumentar a geração de líquidos, porém é necessário mais estudo para afirmações inequívocas. Com base nos resultados das avaliações realizadas podemos concluir que a região apresenta na sua maioria potencial interessante para produção de óleo utilizando pirólise / In this work, some chemical characterizations were held on tar sands in the region of Piracicaba-SP, the South American Piramboia Formation from Paraná basin, to check its oil production potential. For this purpose, samples obtained in the region have undergone through evaluation by thermogravimetry, moisture content, ash content, content of organic material using extraction, pyrolysis process, elemental analysis and fractionation on open chromatography column. By TGA was noted that 500 C almost all-organic material present suffered pyrolysis. Extraction procedure collaborated to achieve the classification of samples regarding the content of organic material, from 4 to 13%, and by levels found at the sample AM06 is considered of high productive potential, the samples AM05, AM08 and AM09 have medium potential, the samples AM01, AM02, AM03 and AM07 have low potential, but still attractive, and the AM04 does not have any potential. By evaluating the atomic relationship between H/C and O/C of the extracts was possible to build up the Van Krevelen diagram and see that some samples are in the final process of diagenesis and other early catagenesis, indicating that they are in the early maturation process. Chromatographic evaluation of the extracts revealed that there were losses of oil by weathering process because it remains mostly high molecular weight compounds on the rocks. The fractionation has shown that samples AM01, AM06 and AM09 have higher free hydrocarbon amount and samples AM06, AM07 and AM09 presented a higher level of oil content. The pyrolysis procedure showed that the samples AM01, AM05, AM06 and AM09 presented greater oil generation potential, pyrolytic oil released from 2 to 8%, and through their evaluation by HRGC and HRGC-MS it was observed that it promotes the release of significant quantities of substances that are lighter than related to the extracts obtained directly in the original samples. In addition, it also promotes a production of homologous series of paraffinic and olefinic hydrocarbons. Comparison of pyrolysis products of sandstones with pyrolysis products of vacuum residue by HRGC-MS allowed to observe that there is similarity between their compositions, which pyrolysis process of vacuum residue generates a homologous series of hydrocarbons between C10 the C32, similar to AM09s pyrolysis products, however with minor variety of types of hydrocarbons. The pre-evaluation of co-pyrolysis of sandstones with plastic waste has indicated that it is possible to increase the liquid generation, but more study is needed for clear statements. Based on the results of the evaluations it can be concluded that the region has an interesting potential for producing oil using pyrolysis process

Neste trabalho, algumas caracterizações químicas foram realizadas em arenitos asfálticos da região de Piracicaba-SP, Formação Piramboia da Bacia do Paraná, para verificar seu potencial de produção de óleo. Para isso, as amostras obtidas da região foram submetidas a avaliação por termogravimetria, teor de umidade, teor de cinzas, teor de material orgânico por extração, pirólise, análise elementar e fracionamento em coluna. Por TGA observou-se que a 500 C praticamente todo material orgânico presente sofreu pirólise. A extração colaborou para se obter a classificação das amostras quanto ao teor de material orgânico, apresentando entre 4 e 13%, sendo que pelos teores encontrados a amostra AM06 é considerada de alto potencial produtivo, as amostras AM05, AM08 e AM09 são de médio, as amostras AM01, AM02, AM03 e AM07 possuem baixo, mas ainda atrativo, e a AM04 não possui atratividade. Pela avaliação elementar, a relação H/C e O/C dos extratos evidenciaram que algumas amostras estão no processo final da diagênese e outras no início da catagênese, indicando que elas estão no processo inicial de maturação. A avaliação cromatográfica dos extratos revelou que houve perdas de óleo por intemperismo restando majoritariamente compostos de alto peso molecular. O fracionamento permitiu verificar que as amostras AM01, AM06 e AM09 possuem maior quantidade de hidrocarbonetos livres e as amostras AM06 e AM07 e AM09 apresentaram maior teor de óleo. O procedimento de pirólise evidenciou que as amostras AM01, AM05, AM06 e AM09 apresentam maior potencial de geração de óleo, sendo que a faixa encontrada de óleo pirolítico ficou entre 2 e 8%, e através de avaliação por CGAR e CGAR-EM observou-se que ela promove a liberação de quantidades consideráveis de substâncias mais leves do que quando comparados aos extratos obtidos diretamente nas amostras originais. Além de produzir uma série homóloga de hidrocarbonetos parafínicos e olefínicos. A comparação dos produtos de pirólise dos arenitos com os produtos de pirólise de um resíduo de vácuo por CGAR-EM permitiu observar que existe similaridade entre suas composições, onde o processo de pirólise do resíduo de vácuo gera uma série homóloga de hidrocarbonetos entre C10 a C32, similar aos produtos de pirólise da amostra AM09, porém com menor variedade de tipos de hidrocarbonetos. A pré-avaliação da co-pirólise dos arenitos com resíduos plásticos indicou que é possível aumentar a geração de líquidos, porém é necessário mais estudo para afirmações inequívocas. Com base nos resultados das avaliações realizadas podemos concluir que a região apresenta na sua maioria potencial interessante para produção de óleo utilizando pirólise / In this work, some chemical characterizations were held on tar sands in the region of Piracicaba-SP, the South American Piramboia Formation from Paraná basin, to check its oil production potential. For this purpose, samples obtained in the region have undergone through evaluation by thermogravimetry, moisture content, ash content, content of organic material using extraction, pyrolysis process, elemental analysis and fractionation on open chromatography column. By TGA was noted that 500 C almost all-organic material present suffered pyrolysis. Extraction procedure collaborated to achieve the classification of samples regarding the content of organic material, from 4 to 13%, and by levels found at the sample AM06 is considered of high productive potential, the samples AM05, AM08 and AM09 have medium potential, the samples AM01, AM02, AM03 and AM07 have low potential, but still attractive, and the AM04 does not have any potential. By evaluating the atomic relationship between H/C and O/C of the extracts was possible to build up the Van Krevelen diagram and see that some samples are in the final process of diagenesis and other early catagenesis, indicating that they are in the early maturation process. Chromatographic evaluation of the extracts revealed that there were losses of oil by weathering process because it remains mostly high molecular weight compounds on the rocks. The fractionation has shown that samples AM01, AM06 and AM09 have higher free hydrocarbon amount and samples AM06, AM07 and AM09 presented a higher level of oil content. The pyrolysis procedure showed that the samples AM01, AM05, AM06 and AM09 presented greater oil generation potential, pyrolytic oil released from 2 to 8%, and through their evaluation by HRGC and HRGC-MS it was observed that it promotes the release of significant quantities of substances that are lighter than related to the extracts obtained directly in the original samples. In addition, it also promotes a production of homologous series of paraffinic and olefinic hydrocarbons. Comparison of pyrolysis products of sandstones with pyrolysis products of vacuum residue by HRGC-MS allowed to observe that there is similarity between their compositions, which pyrolysis process of vacuum residue generates a homologous series of hydrocarbons between C10 the C32, similar to AM09s pyrolysis products, however with minor variety of types of hydrocarbons. The pre-evaluation of co-pyrolysis of sandstones with plastic waste has indicated that it is possible to increase the liquid generation, but more study is needed for clear statements. Based on the results of the evaluations it can be concluded that the region has an interesting potential for producing oil using pyrolysis process