4. Results
4.1. Pyrolysis products
The correlation between the simulated temperature and measured vitrinite
reflectance (Ro ) is shown in Fig. 2. The corresponding Roto these simulated temperatures of 335 °C, 360 °C, 400 °C, 455 °C, 480
°C, 525 °C, and 575 °C were 0.82%, 1.09%, 1.65%, 1.93%, 2.3%,
2.56%, and 3.24%, respectively. A clear linear positive correlation
between them with a correlation coefficient
(R 2) of 0.9861 was observed. Thus, this
pyrolysis experiment could be seen as a continuous thermal evolution
process with increasing maturity. Next, we used the value of the
measuredRoto replace the simulated temperatures (Wu et al., 2018; Sun et al.,
2019a).